THE BRENNAN MONORAIL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1909, Page 10

THE BRENNAN MONORAIL.

TO TilE LDITOR. ■ Sir, — Your interesting article on Brennan"s development of hih mono-rail system may be supplemented witTi romo information furnished by Mr. Thallon, the Queensland Commissioner of Railways, tn his Government in February of tin's year. Mr. Thallon -had then just returned from a visit to England, whore, on behalf of the Queensland. Railway Department, he had interviewed th» inventor and inspected his models. Brennan at that time required £16,500 to complete his experiments and test the. invention with cars and equipment built to full scale. Of this sum tho Indian Government had offered to contributo £5000, and Australia, had been arked to provide £6000. Brennan stated to Mr. Thallon that a full-sized car, 40ft in length, would weigh when loadpd about 33 tons, and would cost from £4000 to £5000. As this is probably the first published estimate of cost of the cars, and is given on the authority of the inventor himsoif, it is of unu<=ual interest. Evidently the fjstem as a whole will not be so cheap as was expected, unle=s a line can handle all its traffic with, F&y, a total of two or three cars.— l am, etc., FLYWHEEL. Wellington, 15th November, 1909.