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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 3

/The following extracts are from the Lyttelton Times” for August 2S 18 for SiTeitf ms now been shipped, andwill ar -ive shortly. The promoter, Mr. David Proudfoot, determined from the very first to snare no expense in making the scheme a thorough success, and the various items now on their road out appear to be the best obtainable in the Home markets The rails are the exact facsimiles of those now being made for the London me tro nolitaii tramways. The cars are mostly constructed to seat about twenty gers. Their finish is perfect, and the furnishings luxurious in the extreme. Th . engines have been made the subject of most careful inquiry.. . The promoter, agent has actually visited, many cities both on the Continent and in the United Kingdom where tramways are m '°r 10 - for the sole purpose of seeing th « systems in actual operation, and formin., his conclusions from personal exP«ienOT. The construction of the whole of the plant is being supervised by one of, the iirns eminent engineers of London Die Telephone. — Upwards of 20,000 te e phones are already in operation in the United States, the larger number being those which are licensed by Professm Bell. In Newport, Rhode lsl ?nd, vhe are fifty-six telephones in one circuit, and a general conversation, may be earned on over the whole town with ease. In Boston there are already three hundred telephones connected with the. centra1 ofiiei, besides a vast number of private m struineuts.”