A CURIOUS TRAMWAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1861, 10 December 1884, Page 2

A CURIOUS TRAMWAY.

A curious plan for a tramway was recently laid before the Court of Aider' man of New York, (says "Iron",) Several patents coyer the invention, the principal patent being for a car, the wheels of which are to run underground, so that only the body of the ear would appear above" the street. The difference between this system and; the ordinary cable system in operation in the United States.- is,..that there would ■be no tracks to break ■ the snrfiice of the street, The tracks would he laid in tunnels under the pavement-, and the wheels running on them connected with a car above by a steel plate half an inch thick, which moves through a slot in the roadway. Should the system be introduced, the streets of New York would not be altered in the least in appearance, except that a close inspection would reveal two parallel slits half an inch wide running through them. Under the new system tracks could be placed on streets without spoiling them, As the bottom of the cars would move along close .to. the ground-only 4in above the surfacethere would be no climbing in or out, and no one could be run over or seriously injured. The patent ia owned by the United States Gable road and Subway Company.