MONO RAIL EXPERIMENTS.
, The greatest anterest attaches to the experiments by, Mr Louis- Brennan, .with; the mono-rail train invented by him, at Gillingham, Kent. Two hundred and fifty of the leading scientists of the kingdom mid - including the. Ifdn.; A.. A, Kirkpatrick, AgentdJene'ral for SouthAustralia; the lion. VV. Hall-Joues, High Commissioner tor 1 New Zealand; Mr Percy Inskipp, British South Africa Company; Mr XI. F. V. Jones, Canadian Bank of Commerce; and representatives of the great railways, were present. The experiments included running at speeds of five, ten, fifteen, and twentj’two miles an hour; unloading of eight ton® weight, to show how quickly it can be done on this system; and starting; taking curves at high speed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7110, 23 April 1910, Page 2
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