IN FLYING TRAIN.
BOY IN ONE OF BACHELET'S CARS. LONDON, May 14. M. Baehclet's flying train continues to attract' attention. He yesterday wound up a, demonstration of his invention by lifting a boy into the air m his model car. The boy, 5 years old, weghing 42 .pounds, sat m a. wicker chair. M,. Baehelet switched on the current a-nd the car, chair and boy rose from -the coils and remained suspended m the air m Mahomet-coffin-liko effect. The, little passenger jumped when; he was' suddenly jerked upward, but quickly broke into smilen and obviously enjoyed Ms experience as the first passenger on a flying train. Tho model car weighs eighteen pounds so that tho total weight lifted was 60 \ pounds.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13430, 11 July 1914, Page 9
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