Professor Kurt Weissinger, professor of locomotion construction at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic at Zurich, has given a demonstration of an ultrarapid train on which he has been working for a number of years. Ho claims it can reach a speed of 150 to 300 miles an hour. The invention consists of a new application of the propeller system —a kind of aeroplane on rails—with an anti-derailing device. A committee has been set up at Zurich to further the execution of the professor’s plans. The Federal railway authorities have undertaken to provide a line three miles long for tests with a half-size model.
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Evening Star, Issue 21284, 13 December 1932, Page 10
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