It will astonish many people to learn that there are no speedometers on railway locomotives (says the Christchurch “Sun”). Drivers, who work to a rigid timetable, and* drive according to instructions ahout maximum speeds at certain points, gauge their speeds on the result of experience. Some have, what amounts to an instinct, being able to pick their speeds by night as well as l>v day. Until a few years'ago locomotives wore equipped with speed-gauges, which not only supplied information to the driver, but also recorded it on a tape or long slip of paper. But these gauges often got out of order, and gradually they fell into disuse. No engines in the South Island are equipped with them now.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3656, 23 June 1927, Page 1
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