Failing 1 on Wheels.
An ingenious contrivance has been invented by an engineer of a railway in Bvenoo Ayres for use of his official trips of inspection. A« the company is too poor to supply a locomotive and train for its officials, the inspector has to content himself with a handcaiy
This Iva.s beer, transformed into a boat on wlieels. It is rigged up with a mainsail and jib. There ;s a broad fsat like that in a, yacht. At il-e bvoozes are always plentiful, the sailor has x'pon occasion attainted a epecd of 40 miles an hour. It is seldom -.hat the sails have ±o ba | hauled down, and then the engineer must propel the ear by hand.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 78
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119Failing1 on Wheels. Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 78
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