WORLD RECORD TRAIN SPEED
OVER 119 MILES AN HOUR. NEW STREAMLINED ENGINE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). BERLIN, June 12. The State railways announce that a new streamlined engine drawing 200 tons during an official test between Berlin and Hamburg reached 119.8 miles an hour, a world’s reeord. The previous best speed, 10G.G miles inn hour, was established in England in March. “We are not dismayed,’’ commented a British official. “We will have to put the locomotive ‘Silver Jubilee’ on the road, for which special rolling stock is under (construction. Then we shall challenge the German record with confidence.’’
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 14 June 1935, Page 7
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100WORLD RECORD TRAIN SPEED Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 14 June 1935, Page 7
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