A Successful Experiment with Telpherage

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2859, 28 March 1888, Page 3

A Successful Experiment with Telpherage

Ha A Correspondent who recently visited Lord Hampden's .seat at Glydne, in Sussex, expresses his surprise that the system of telpherage which is in operation there is not attracting more attention. 'Die apathy witli which the invention—which was the work of three professors of mechanics, !>y name Jeiikins,Avrto;i, and Perry—is regarded, illustrates the slowness with which scientific aids to industry are made use of. Telpherage has been successfully used at Glynde for the past two years, but has not yet been turned to account anywhere else, thoiisjli calculated to lie of universal utility. At, Glydne, the telpher train convoys Portland cement fiom tli(!i|i!ari'ii;s to tin; railway station, 3GO tons being removed every week at a much smaller co.it than that of carting.JTiie lino is about a mile and a halff! length, and passes over a winding river several times. The, train consists of ten .small trucks, and runs over two thick wire ropes suspended across what look like, telegraph poles, tot a uniform speed of four miles an rfg&ir, Three trains run continuously, carrying a ton of cement. 'The electricity,—generated by machinery on the spot—is applied on a platform fixed at each end of the line, while additional impetus is obtained by what may be termed the undulations of ch,e wire ropes,