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75 MILES PER HOUR. ENGLISH LOCOMOTIVE IN AMERICA. What is said will be the fastest and most powerful locomotive in Europe, the King George V of England s Great Western Railway. ,e--cently completed a 290-mile test run over Baltimore and Ohio tracks, and startled officials of that road uy bitting a 76-mile-an-hour speed with its throttle only 75 per eent. open. Labourers, office workers and motorists along the route from Baltimore to Washington and thence to Philadelphia and back to Baltimore craned their necks as the locomotive swept by with seven coaches. With no pipes and few working parts exposed. the streamlined: English engine appeared very different from the usual American typo
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 13
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114SPEED RECORD Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 13
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