MONO=RAILWAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 7

MONO=RAILWAY.

WSSENGEE SRVICES IN VIEW, , . GERMAN PLANS. By Telegraph-Press Aesociation-CoDrrichu • .._ London, February 27. Mx, Louis Brennan's mono-rail gyroscopic car, which in November last carried over torty passengers, in the course of a further trial at Gillingham carried sixty passengers, and maintained a speed' of 23 miles au hour. Sharp curves were taken with great steadiness. ......

Mr. Bronnan expects that a service for passengers will ba in operation within eighteen months. The owners of the German rights hope to establish n 125 miles an hour service between the German capital and the big provincial towns. Mr. Kirkpatrick, AgentGeneral for South Australia, anil tho Hon. Mr. Hall-Jones, New Zealand High Commissioner, were', among ..those present at tho GJlingham trial. ;

THE BERLIN SCHEME; A WEB OF LINES.

Mr. Brcnnan; inventor of the mono, rail gyroscopic train, is Tcported to have sold a portion of his rights" to Hot bcheri, of Berlin, for a handsome figure. Horr bcheri the exclusife rights in tho patent ior the whole of Germany, and also permits the sale of the manufactured 1?I ™', l tc - m the Vn^A Bnglish rights aro unaffected, hut Air Bren?i?<f Navy and Army tlio rights in his patents for a smaU royalty, in consideration of the financial ■^feCr 3^ 0^3 gaT ° him dur " "Herr Schorl is ono of the leading newspaper proprietors in Berlin," said Mr Brennan, "and is also a philanthrope. Ho has built model villages for the working classes and has taken a deeS interest m rapid transit, which fa neSsary for the better housing- of work people. He has a great scheme for the construction of a huge central station in T'T , ,- f , ron i vlmh rail «'ay lines will radiatelike the strands of a spider's™ Ho behoves that m my system, which