The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26

will have the great advantage OF being
always ready for immediate use. the
gyro wheels being kept constantly rum
ming by current from n small accu
mulator while the engine is at rest
In order that the vehicle may be able
to ascend steep inclines the wheels are
all powor-driven and change gears are
provided for use in hilly country. 1t
Is also possible to run free wheel
down-hll at n great velocity. so that
n good average rate of speed can be
attained.
Everything points to a great econ
omy resulting from making the vehi
cles wider in proportion to their length
than on ordinary railways. and ii has
therefore been decided to make the
experimental wagon twelve feet wide,
or one and half times as wide as
usual. For civil work in the colonies
the vehicles Will probably be two or
three times as wide, If not more.
Brakes capable of being operated by
pneumatic or manual power are pro-
vided for all the wheels.
THE rail, which Is of curved top,
only requires to be the same weight
as one of the rails on an ordinary line
in order to carry the same load on the
same number of wheels in each case.
The sleepers also only require to be
onc-half the usual length to give the
same area of support to the vehicle.
Flying lines of railway can be laid
with great rapidly over uneven ground
with slight expenditure OF labor. Spe-
cially designed building vehicles are
also planned on the monorail princi-
Pile and equipped with electric gear
for handling the rails being kept at
the railhead for the purpose. 1t is con-
hdently anticipated that working in
this manner it will be possible to keep
up with an army on the march and
supply them with all their require
ments.
Bridges are of the simplest possible
construction. n single wire hawser
stretched across a ravine or river be-
ing all that is necessary for temporary
work. These hawsers can be built up
on the spot from separate wire-rope
strands, so that the transportation of
them becomes an easy matter. Strange
to say. the lateral swaying of the haw-
ser does not disturb the balance OF the
vehicles, and the strongest winds viii
fail to blow them off. In other cases
Of bridge building a single row of piles
with rail on top suftices. or n single
girder carrying the rail may be con-
yeniently used
The expenditure of fuel is consider
ably smaller than on ordinary lines.
, owing to the absence of ilange friction
on curves and to the vehicles running
without oscillation or jiltng. The
speed can be from twice to thrice that
OF ordinary railways, owing to the
smoothness of running of the vehicles
and to the total absence of lateral os-
cillation. Vehicles provided with their
own motive power can go anywhere
a single rail is laid, and besides carry
ing a substantial load themselves are
also capable, on tolerably level coun-
try, of supplying current to other We
hicles unprovlded with power gener-
ating plants, thus running as trains"
The India government has now voted
| $4,000 for the construction of full
sized vehicle, and the War Department
| will construct the necessary rail upon
| government land at Chatham near the
| inventors home. His e~neriments have
| thus far been conducted upon the eX-
| tensive grounds of Mr.. Brennan's es-
1 tate.
The present model, which is upon q
| scale of eight. has been privately
| examined and tested during the last
few weeks by the most eminent Eng
/ lish experts. and their reports to the
government have been uniformly eulo-
| CYSTIC of the new system of transport.
Some months Ehst, OF course. elapse
before the line equipped with a car of
much larger Dimensions than the or
| binary railway carriage is in operation
| Mr.. Brenuan's confident dream is of a
transcontinental line furnished with a
| travelling hotel with rooms fifteen OF
| twenty feet wide that will carry pas.
1 sengers in perfect comfort and safety
| at a speed of 40 to $50 miles an hour