SPEED RECORDERS.
I ON RAILWAY TRAINS. • ■ I By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Friday. Speed indicators are now beiii" fitted to locomotives on the railways. These troctometers, as they are called, indicate not only the speed bv the len«th of stops, and all the movements of the train during the day can be. traced bv the officer who takes the slip of paper from the machine. It is lixed in the driver's sight in the cab of (he engi'ie and connected with the axle, much like | a taximeter, l
I l'orty-(ive miles per hour is' the limit allowed, and as .soon as this is exceeded a warning hell rings, i Three different makes are hein« tried both in the South, Island anil on the new engines for the. Northern Trunk railway. Eventually every engine will have one. On the 'Continent speed re- j Corders are compulsory b v hiw, the limit there being seventy-four'iniles an hour.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 330, 23 January 1909, Page 2
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154SPEED RECORDERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 330, 23 January 1909, Page 2
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