GYROSCOPE FOR INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 304, 28 December 1907, Page 4

GYROSCOPE FOR INDIA.

FIKST FL'LL-SIZEIJ RAILWAY TO BE Bl'lLT IX THE EAST. The first full-sized gyroscope train will make its initial run in India, for Mr. Louis Brennan. the inventor, has received a grant of COOOU from the Indian Coveninieiit. The course of the new railway has already Ixvn decided on, and a route has Wen marked out where the wonderful mono-rail train can run over the plains and up the mountain side at a rate whicn it is e-timated will be more than a hun-ilß-d miles an hour. The work of designing the first "tight rop.. tram"" is to lie carried out in tile secret iin-nnan torpedo works at (idling. ham. i 4"-- to tli«' inventorV home. The news that the Indian Coverunient is so confident of the suceos.- of the gyros.oiwie train has directed the attention .if the authorities of most of the t'olonie- to the |»ssibiUies 0 f the monorail. Deputations from all parts of the world have lately vi-ited Mr. Brennan. and in-pecteil the model railway which rune, round the grounds of his Kentish home. A party of representatives of African railway companies ami the Trade Com mi-ion«r from the Cape watched the rrial recently, and ,aw a full-grown man whirled safely to and fro in a tiny gvrnvnpe irain round the lawn. The weight of a man repre-ented forty tons on a full-sized train, but the carriage balanced «n the rail never lost its stability for a moment, even when running at espre«n .-peed. '' We are making distinct progress.and we hope to do Iretter still," said Mr. Loui« Brennan to a press representative. "Onr experiments for the first Indian line are now being made, and although 1 do not at pos-ent intend to go out "to tlie luist, my representative will leave soon to siiixTi'ntcnd the work. -Our first trains will b e small and not -o very unconventional in appearance, hut very >oon we hope to make them travelling hotels. Size is no object in a gyroscopic train, and we anticipate running car- fitted up as theatres and restaurant- before long."