New Zealand Railways.
SPEIED INIDICAfIIOiRS TO BIE UiSED
(Per United Preaa AMocdation.)
iWIEILLIX&TO^;, January :22,
Speed) indicators' are "now z bang fitted to locomotives on railways. These trooho meters, as they are called, indicate not only the speed but the length of stops aiMJ all movements of .the train during 1 the day oam be traced 1 by the officer, who takes the slip of paper frt>in thie^machine. -■; It is 'fixed in the driver's sight "in the cab of the enginie and connected w.th the axle, much like the taiximeter. Forty-five miles per hour ir the limit allowed and as soon* as this is exceeded a warning, iblell rings.
Three different makes ai'e be"ng tried, 'both, in the Sbutth Island, and new engines' for the Northern Trunk. Elveintu'ally every engine -will • have one. . ■■ ■" -"-- '■■ -^ ■:- ■- '-:'
On the Continent speed' recorders are compulsory by> law, the lim't there being 74 miles.
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Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10621, 22 January 1909, Page 2
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148New Zealand Railways. Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10621, 22 January 1909, Page 2
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