Til AIN SPEEDS. A new train ear shaped like the upper half of an airship, and driven by a propellar, lias been recently tested in -Germany. On a straight track this “Zeppelin” railway train attained a speed of ninety-nine miles an hour, but in private trials it is reported as having reached a spec do I 112 miles an hour. This is by no means a record, for still higher ispeeds have been reached by an electric train, constructed by the German Electric Company, which is said to have attained a speed of 130 miles an hour as long ago as 1903. Tt was not put to general use, for German railway traffic regulations make sixtytwo miles an hour the maximum speed allowed except under special permission. The fastest German train has an average of close upon fifty-six miles an hour, and the fastest British train a fraction over sixty miles an hour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1930, Page 6
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153Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1930, Page 6
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