WINCED BARGE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10474, 9 October 1912, Page 8

WINCED BARGE.

Comte Bertrand de Lesseps, who recently made a successful run of 320 miles from Paris to Lyons in a motor car driven by a wing propeller, has now applied the same method of propulsion to a 100 ft barge. The mechanism of the winged motor car is a two-bladed propeller, designed on the principle of the action of a bird’s wing by M. Fillippi, attached to a shaft at the rear of the car. The rotary action was transmitted from the motor to the propeller shaft by a system of cog wheels. Now the motor and wing propeller have been lited into a 270 ton barge on the Kiver Saone at Lyons, says the Figaro, and the experiments have given excellent results. The barge was driven at a speed of 3)4 miles an hour against the current and at seven miles an hour down stream. The valuo of this means of propulsion to vessels which navigate in places where the shallowness of the water precludes the use of the submerged propeller is at once apparent.