NEW PARIS THRILL

Grey River Argus, 10 June 1933, Page 7

NEW PARIS THRILL

CLIME OF 1600 FEET. Visitors to the .Paris Exhibition of 1937 will be able to drive in their own cars up a hill 1640 feet high and 3?. miles long, if the plans of M. Freyssinel. the famous French engineer, reach fruition. This hill—a spiral track—will climb t<» the first platform of the great concrete tower M. Freyssinot proposes to build for the forthcoming exhibition. Ascending cars will travel under their own power, but for the descent it is proposed to attach them to a kind of monorail apparatus, in order to obviate any risk caused by failure of the vehicle’s own brakes. All the driver will have, to do will be to guide his car round the curves, its speed being controlled at a uniform rate by the monorail apparatus. At the extreme top of the tower. 12300 ft. high, will be a cabin for mak-

ing meteorological observations and a Luge beacon, the light of which, it is id. will be visible from the ground : t Calais ami from an aeroplane in I jigland. 11 is proposed to build the tower o” Mount Valerien. on the south-wester:' outskirts of Paris. This is itself ‘over 500 ft. high, and the (op of the tower would thus be over 280< , ft. above Paris. This site is accessible b\ rail, road and river, and is only a l>«’ miles from the centre of the city. If the project is adopted it is esti f ;atcd that it will take a year to pci feet the plans an.l about tw.» years to I qild the lower.