SILENT TUBE TRAVEL.
NEW TYPE OF CAR. A. and N.Z. * LONDON, Jim. 5. As the result of long research of Professor D. A. Low, the uridergroxmd railway company has built" six silent cars, in which it is possible to hear a watch ticking a foot away. Silencing is effected by sheathing the steel plates of the car with sound-absorbing asbestos or millboard, abolishing the bossroof and hooding the wheels with ai form of deflector. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18292, 8 January 1923, Page 5
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74SILENT TUBE TRAVEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18292, 8 January 1923, Page 5
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