FAST TRAINS
150 TO 300 M.P.H. CLAIMED
GENEVA
November 30.
Professor Kurt Weissinger, Professor of Locomotion Construction at the Swiss Federal polytechnic at Zurich, has jnst given a. demonstration of an ultra topid train on which he haz 1 been working for a number of years. He claim* it can reach a speed of 150 to 300 m.p.li.
The invention consists of !a. new application of the propeller system—a kind of aeroplane oil rails—with an anti-derailing device. A committee ha* been set up vt 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 '*l ha.lf-siw model
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1932, Page 6
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