ROCKET-CAR SMASH
DRIVERLESS MACHINE COMPLETE DEMOLITION (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A. —United Service) BERLIN, Saturday. Thousands of people watched a driverless rocket-car of a new type, fitted with wheels for rails, smashed to fragments in a second attempt to establish a world’s record over a stretch of railway of about three miles between Durgwedel and Celle, Hanover. The only injury sustained was by a cat, which had been placed iu the car to ascertain the effect of speed pressure on a living being. The first attempt had been most successful. A speed was attained of 159 miles an hour. Automatic brakes in the form of rockets shot from the front of the car, checked its progress and brought it to a standstill after about one mile and a-fiftli had been travelled. More powerful rockets, vertically fired, impelled the car on the second attempt. With a terrific roar and amid sheets of flame and clouds of smoke it jumped the rail and almost immedately crashed into an embankment and was demolished.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 389, 25 June 1928, Page 9
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