TOWER CLIMBING BY CAR
PARIS EXHIBITION PROJECT. A groat tower 2300 feet high is one if the attractions planned for the Paris Exhibition of 1937. This will be almost twice as high as the famous Empire State Building, in New York, at present he highest in the world. It is 1248 'eet high. Motorists may be specially ■nterested in the Paris project because ; t is proposed to construct a spiral 'rack to the first platform of the tower ip which they can drive their cars, t’hey will have to climb 1640 feet in ■hree and a half miles, a pretty good est of a car. Coming down, the cars’ .peed will bo controlled l>v a special ppiratus, to prevent any risk of accilcnt through brake failure, and the drivers only duty will be guiding their machines round the curves.
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Western Star, 5 December 1933, Page 2
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