Lighting Railway Carriages with Gas.
o (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, July 7. An experiment was made on the express train to and from Christcharch of lighting two of the carriages with gas. The compressed gas used is kept in special chambers under a carriage, and is conyeyed by a tube outside the carriages to the burners. The trial was made under the supervision of an expert sent to the colony by Pintsch's Patent Lighting Company. The experiment was regarded as satisfactory. In a few days the carriages on both the North and South lines will be fitted up with the new light.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1896, Page 2
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102Lighting Railway Carriages with Gas. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1896, Page 2
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