TRAIN SPEED SECRET
QUEEN VICTORIA’S 100 M.P.H. LONDON, Feb. 8. Even in Queen Victoria’s day trains could travel at 100 miles an hour. Mr. Harry Bentham, in his presidential address to the Society of Engineers. stated that Queen Victoria once travelled at more than 100 mi.es an hour, but the speed was kept a secret in case the public became alarmed, because of possible danger .to the Queen's life.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 17, 30 March 1938, Page 4
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69TRAIN SPEED SECRET Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 17, 30 March 1938, Page 4
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