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ROCKET CAR HURTLES TO DESTRUCTION. DISASTROUS SPEED TEST. [ Australian Press Assn. J Received June 24, 5-5 p.m. BERLIN, June 23. Thousands watched a driverless Rocket car of new type, fitted with wheels for rails, smashed to fragments in a second attempt to make a world’s record over a five kilometre stretch of railway between Durgwcdel and Celle, in Hanover. The only injured thing was a cat placed in the car to ascertain the effect of speed pressure on a living being. The first attempt was most successful, the speed attained being 159 miles an hour. Automatic brakes in the form of rockets shot from the front of the car, "“checked its progress and brought the car to a standstill after two kilometres had been travelled. More powerful rockets, vertically fired, impelled the car in the second attempt. With a terrific roar and amidst sheets of flame and clouds of smoke.
it jumped the rails almost immediately, and crashed into an emnankment, being demolished.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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165IN FRAGMENTS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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