Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-07-03
HERE Is A LAND SHIP,
1T is A GREAT THING FOR ExPLOE
ING AFRICAN WILDS.

slow evolution in the brain of q M lam
erv of East Oakland for nearly four wears
He has COMPLETED wortinp drawings
of q onaarlv cnntrivad land chin With
which he nronoses To roam thronob fine
undiscovarad cold raoions and tho unay.
nlored Mains and denths of Africa discov.
erino long lost deposits of riches the source
of Solomon,s oilded olories Gathering TONS
of nrecious ivory. REVEALING the unknown
in books of travel and adventure and een.
eraIlv winning wealth and fame if success
shall reward his homes.
His land shin is a big car of alumi
mum. strong and light. which is to climb
fountains. Jolt over logs. travel through
forests and over plains. and like a duck
plunge from the banks of rivers and lakes
right into the water and speed uninter.
runted TO opnosite shores. This contriv.
ance would be at once the home fort. shell
ter. means of TRANSPORTATION and travelling
storehouse of the exploring party.
It is not the first attempt to combine a
steam road engine and steamboat, vet the
application appears to be an original one
with Mr.. Lemery.
Mr.. Lemery seems to be neither an en-
thusiast nor an adventurer. He has no
particular ambition to be a great explorer
and The whole Cnl0Q is TO MN business
proposition. He is a quiet hammered man.
thirty-one years old, and is a machinest
and engineer by trade He has been on
the Pacific coast fifteen wears. and during
four years of that time was in business at
Reno, New. He has spent a. good deal of
time prospecting for gold, and as a pros
pector he spent good deal of time explor
ing the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico.
L.
pressed with the idea that the Dark Cont
nent was the one remaining new country
where poor man could get rich easily, and
the idea has chung to him ever since. He
believed that there was plenty of gold in
African mountains forgotten or vet undis
covered, and he believes SO yet.
He wanted to 90 there to prospect for
mines, and in planning how he could travel
long distances through an almost unknown
country the idea of steam engine to travel
As strength and lightness are requisites
Mr. Lemery proposed to build the land
ship almost entirely of aluminium, which
weighs 16S pounds to the cubic foot, while
steel weighs about Ats pounds to the cubic
foot. The cylinders of the engines would
be of steel and much of the fittings and
furniture luSiUC vi WOOu. 1IC UUuy OIL Uu6
land ship as planned is so feet long, ID feet
wide and feet high.
1t is to be made of aluminium plates one
fourth of an inch thick for the lower half
and one-sixteenth of an inch thick for the
upper half of the sides and the roof. In
the rear end is large space for wood,
which can be cut and loaded anywhere,
and the boiler stands abaft the center.
4 e.,
horse power cylinders working a shaft
which bears wheel outside the car at
each end By an endless chain the motion
of this wheel is transmitted to a larger one
between the two main wheels, fourteen
feet in diameter, which are driven by
means of chains passing over the driving
wheel between them. The main wheels
are built like bicycle wheel, the spokes
being aluminium rods one-fourth of an
inch in diameter. The tires of the main
wheels are eighteen inches in diameter
The large wheels have no axles connecting
with the car.
The car rests on a shaft which passes
| through the driving wheels, and the main
wheels are connected by strong aluminium
bar which supports the Car and can revolve
on the main shaft The wheels could thus
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much and the end of the bars bearing the
front main wheels can be hooked up
readily, making three wheeled car, easy to
turn around The front end of the car rests
on a single wheel, which turns readily in
any direction.
At the front end is a drum, on which SOC
feet of cable, to pull the car if necessary, OF
| to pull distractions out of the way, can be
wound by small engine for the purpose.
The bottom of the car is water tank,
| while another water compartment sur
rounds the outside of the car.
The interior is to provide living accom-
modations for twenty men. AS Il steamer
the body of the car or land ship resem-
bles on it's bottom a fatboat or scow
schooner A lever connects a propeller
shaft with the machinery, and as the land
ship climbs down into the water and be-
gins to float, the propeller sends it onward
over the CLASSY surface of some crystal
lake rippled only by the awful hippopot-
ami If the water trip be long the land
wheels can be taken off and laid on the
roof.
When wood is to be cut the propeller is
slipDed off its shaft and little wood saw
chews up fuel in no time. The engineer
works the land ship from his pilot house
in front The whole car is planned to
weight fifteen or twenty tons.
"You see y said Mr.. Iemerv. as he ex-
n,.inod lie ar.,,,ipe,, .eo,,arv nart will he
piaileo MS olaMinss' Ise.y peio ~ W
mace SO lna0 II cs'n NC 'aAeh Oh very
readily. l would expect to make from
three to twenty miles day with it, accord
ing to the troubles met in clearing away.
They wo1ld he great in a forest. but |
would ,yoid forests
$3.50 ~ ~ 1o,,a sb;n would bovo
Ae'doiie' W 'iii1 i'nu S.ip ~, 10 :. =
another car just IKE TINS except thaG II
would have no machinery, and III 1t would
take three years supply OF provisions
ana ammunition. Inc expense Oh an an army
OF porters would De aVoloeo. Inc car
| would oe PROOF against Inc arrows "
hostile natives, ana IN 1t we couio oels
thousands:
wen, haVent- peen ape 10 nsur.
closely on the cost OF the snip yet, 200 o.i'
suppose one Would COST apc"1 e''o'ooo.
Wouid IKE TO get nhahclal Da5hins enousA
TO bulld Two OF them ana 1Wo supply y 1 aoo
ID New YORK, ana ought 10 nave Sloo'oeo
would calculate on beng gone llVe OF slA
years. would go manly 10 prospecg IL,
gold. That country Is luh OF IL. NO
don't know just where woulo go W iooh
Tor 1t. would go TO most any ol Illt
mountalhs-pefhapst ne MOUNTAINS VI 'l'
Moon, NO, 90 not know WheGher tne.