WIRELESS CONTROL OF TRAINS
COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE AN ENGLISH EXPERIMENT Can trains be controlled by wireless? This question is to be considered by a committee appointed by the British Minister of Transport under the chairmanship of Sir John Pringle Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways The committee is to review the recommendations made by the Automatic Train Control Committee in 1922, and to consider and report what alterations, if any, should be made in that body’s conclusions and recommendations, having regard to the developments that have taken place since that date. The investigations of the new committee will include the consideration of the non-contact type of train control —inductive or wireless systenjs. No further examination will at present be mad 9 of devices already considered by the Ministry of Transport involving contact between apparatus on the track and on the locomotive.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 10
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140WIRELESS CONTROL OF TRAINS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 10
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