ROCKET CAR JUMPS RAILS.
COMPLETELY WRECKED. CAT THE ONLY PASSENGER';. Australian and N.Z. Press AssociationBERLIN, June 23. Thousands watched a .driverless rocket car of a new type, fitted with wheels for rails, smashed to fragments in the second attempt to make a world record, over a five kilometre stretch of railway between Durgw’edel and Celle, Hanover. The only injured thing was. a cat, placed in the car to ascertain the effect of the speed pressure on a liv-
ing being’. The first attempt was most successful, the speed attained being 159 mileshourly. 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 kilo* metres had been travelled.
More powerful rockets, vertically fired impelled the car in a second attempt. With a terrific roar, amidst > sheets of flame and clouds of smoke, it jumped the rails almost immediately and crashed into an embankment and was demolished.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 225, 25 June 1928, Page 8
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