TWO HUNDRED JULES AN HOUR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1705, 7 June 1884, Page 4

TWO HUNDRED JULES AN HOUR.

The British Trade Journal says:—"A working model ofDanchell's electric railway is on view at the Union Court Chambers, Old Broad street. This railway system is designed in. the meantime for tho carciage only of letters parcels and light freight a' a high rate of speed, bin capable, if Ihe inventor's hopes are not too sanguine, of being a< apled some day to passenger traflic. The train runs on one rail, and is pievented from fa' itig off, by its conneotion with another rail overhead, wliio'u ! also eonveys the ohetric fluid ti tho motor. The construction is designed with a view of mincing friction to a minimum. The extraordinary speed of IfO and UOO miles an hour is aimed at by the inventor. In ihe.*e oireiinutanceo, tbo desire to fully test the working of tho system as a post and parcel railway before adapting it to passenger service will be fu'lur appreciated by a!i ; clnss o( travi Hers, nervous or otherwise. : We may, however, look firwaid some day to coming iu tlw morning to buainesi in the c'ty from the wilda of Wales or from a sum villa on tho borders of a Highland lako. To lunch at Manchester, dine at Newcastle-on-Tyue, theatre in town iu the eveni'ig, and bomo to a quiet connlry residence in, say, Cornwall, wid iu (In happy days to como, be notbiug out of the common."