LADY IN THE TUBE
An amusing story comes from the Post Office Museum at Tottenham in North London.
Here is kept a car of the old Pneumatic Despatch Company, which in tho middle of the Victorian Era built a tube railway nine feet below the streets between Euston Station and the General Post Office in St. Martin's le Grand. The ear is only a few feet long and little more than a couplo of feet high, and it fitted the tunnel to within an inch. It was propelled by a blast of compressed air, and was only intended for parcels. But one day, we learn, a lady in a crinoline squeezed into ons of the cars, and, lying down flat, was blown through the entire length of the tube at 40 miles an hour. Fortunately, on this occasion the car did not get stucK \halfway, as was often tho case, and no trial excavations were needed to aiscover the venturesome Victorian and release hor from her carriage. I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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