THE VARYING GAUGE.
NEW DEVICE DEMONSTRATED With a view to overcoming tho difficulty caused by the difference in railway gauges in Australia Alderman E. D. O'lTonneii, of Glen Innes, has invented a device which was examined last week by the Sydney Millions Club. Seen in operation, the innovation is marked by extreme simplicity. The investigator sees three lines of railway, representing three gauges of varying widths. To these aro attached bogies so constructed as to fit into the axlo connections of the truck above. When it is desired to transfer the trucks or carriages they are shunted along to a platform wjth narrow raised sides, shod with steel, so 351 to take the full weight of the vehicle. ( Immediately the connection is made the' whole weight of the carriage or truck is token by this platform, and in the same process the truck or carriage is liberated from the bogey of t/he gauge. The bogey of tho alternative gauge is then ruin into place, I and immediately takes tho weight -of tho vehicle.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18235, 31 October 1922, Page 8
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173THE VARYING GAUGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18235, 31 October 1922, Page 8
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