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"THE GEORGE BENNIE RAIL PLANE.
GLASGOW ENGINEER'S IMPORTANT INVENTION.
PROF. BROWN'S LECTURE TO ENGINEERING SOCIETY.
Mr.H. Z. Hon presided.
The Address.
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MR. PEPYS IN HONG KONG
This day betimes to the offlag to tond my plants which bas bestowed upon my verandah, and there I find a mighty fine our nation blooming which I de out, and
Under the ausploes of the Bong has some striking advaniagos. Kong University Engineering So- Starting and stopping are very wear to my greatest possible plea ciety, Professor W, Brown, M.A.,smooth. The abponce of jerking is
sure. Very busy beaching my n B. So, F.R.S.E., A.M.I.E.E., de very pleasant. Also the reversal
fendant how he shall water them livered an interesting address last of the propellors, which can be done
(but whether he will do it or no I night, boforo a large audience at the easily and almost instantaneously Oś Late to the Clubbe University, on “The George Bonnie provides a very gentle but effective where I meei Creed and My Lord Rail-Plane."
of Sandwich with Sir B. Harpen don. Drinking my shorries wins, for which I have now a mighty fancy, I enquire if it seems to them Professor Brown's address was, in pended from an overhead rail that the city be overcrowded with part, as follows:-
would be liable to away a good beggars And Creed agreed he The persistent demand for im- deal in a strong winds and to remembers not seeing so many proved transport, with
greater swing out through a big angle on heretofore. It is, says My Lord, speed, safety, comfort, and scenery rounding Sourve at high spood. the influx from Canton and how has caused the gradual avelu- This fandency is however controll- che city watch shall cope with them tion of railway trains, motored by horizonts! wheels which work he knows not for an soon as they cars, steam and motor ships, aero against a guide rail underneath the be packed back to China, they de planes and airships, to their pre-car. It is claimed for the Bennie
return, Nor is punishment of avail sent remarkable stages of develop Bail Plane that it can climb with for to gaol them be but to put the Each of these modes of out dioulty gradients of in 25, Colony at charges for their sup travel has its own special advan-which is much stråper than is
port. And I perceive that it was tages relative to the others, and practicable in an ordinary railway ill done to put away the Stocka. each is a compromise. When speed depending on the adhesion af stsel
Watched a dull match at Sookin is the principel consideration the wheels on smooth steel rails On
poo and walked to the Valley where aeroplane undoubtedly comes first. a steep gradient the effort required I do find the lion of the Office of It has the further merit that no of course increases very greatly,Works Publique do lie down and track aced be constructed for it, and at the same time the force of and in this respect resembles the adhesion diminishes. 1 in 100 is ship that sails the sens. But though considered a rather steep gradient improvements are continually being for an ordinary railway on which devised, it cannot be said yet that continuous high speeds are wanted the aeroplane is free from danger, and there are still many people who, with ample opportunities are unwilling to trust themselves to theparison with ordinary railways: thrills of flying.
ment.
Long distance trains can give one. o remarkable degree of comfort, and an average speed of nearly 80 miles per hour. The passenger carrying !'plane of tő-day can give quite rea- sonable. comfort, and an average spend of pproximately double that of the fast train..
It is also claimed that the rail plane system is extremely cheap to: construct and to maintain, in com-
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consume beer with the lamb of the
enger, who have played at Criquette: Mr. Crabbe of the works tella ma brja side do win out- staying the attack, and indest I know that they of his office are hard to mave. Bowe drink a Bagon together and so to the Chubbo where now. I do reside. But. Lord! how strange it seems that so good a 'runcheon be served get so fowle a dinner. And so to bed with an aching in my stomack.
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Of course the rail-plans track would need to deviate from the ordinary road or railway wherever there are tunnels or over-bridges, or 3rd, Lord's Day-Lay late and very sharp bends excessiva
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Kowloon where I watch a gradients. „.”
game at Criquette, but Lord, the sun is so hoi I must. cool myself by drinking much cool ale. There I cat my muncheon with my good friends in the King's Fleet, and the more beartily for that I misdoubt. me what my dinner shall be. Then home and drinking my wine of Malaya with Mr. Ashby and Pory. They tell me that the news from Shanghai is gloomy but I am mind ed that the longer they talk the Jess likely they will be to fall to fighting agnit
As regards fresh construction over If we wish to describe the Rail-hitherto untouched" country, it Plane in the briefest way, we might should be observed that very little call it an attempt to combine the levelling would be necessary, na safety of the railway train with the many changes of ground level would speed of the aeroplane. That is how be compensated for by using tresties the name rail-plano originated. It of different heighta, and those is fike an aeroplane that cannot fall trestles could be built up from down. Yet the name, is not wholly standardised parts.. appropriate as the car which is used
Also, the ground, would be very has no wings or "plänes," but re-little disturbed by the erection of a zumbles a small, airship rather than rail-plane "overhead. Instead of an aeroplane. The title "aero- railway" would perhaps be better. Yet one must admit the right of an inventor to give his own of-spring any name he likes!"
A Glasgow Inventor, The idea of the rail-plant origin- ated in the fortile, brain of Mr. George Beunie, a well-known Glas- gow engineer, who has several other inventions to his credit.
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Ath-This day very busy at the offida ordering my business and then cuttings and embankments and hire wherein I do perceive they to the King's great shippe Devon- tunnels we would have merely small carry a most excellent wine of concrete foundations, spaced about Cádiz. And while drinking a glass, or it may be two, it comes back 80 feet apart to support the trestles,
to me that these twenty-five years: while between these points streams,
gone when as a stripling I do visit roads, existing railways, and the Finet first, the King's officers agricultural land would remain unit may be a dash of bitters, but do most of them take sherry-and disturbed.
now, they drink Hollands. And so does the fashion change. Thence the King's shippe Tamar where in the smoking room Mr Chevender tells me that the great frigate Medway sails anon conveying Navil wifes to the North. And I suppose the like has not been known in the Service these many yehrs. But Lord! how we all do laugh, except. Mr. Pitt who takes it amiss as a taxpayer. And when I consider upon it I am most beartily sorry for the ships officers who shall are the ordering of the matter. the Chambers I know not. To the And indeed who shall be groom of Clubbe whore I tell Creed but ho calls me a liar which, God knows; map at times be true but not now.
Again, each ear requires only one driver, and the number of cara re quired would be smail, on account of their high speed of travel and During his recent period at Home quick turn-round. Mr. Bennie had Frofessor Brown mot Mr. Bennie, diseased with the lecturer the prob discussed the rail-plane with him-able service if a line wore construct seit and some of his colleagues," saw ed between Glasgow and Edinburgh. the spendid working model in his This is a distance of about 10 miles office, and the full-scale demonstra. A car, accommodating ny 40 tion line erected on the northern passengers, could do this journey in 28 minutes, and could be back at the edge of Glasgow.
starting point, ready for a second outward trip, in little over one hour. Hence, only seven cars would he required to maintain normally a 10-minutes, service, convoying each way about 240 passengers per hour
The car has accommodation for 20 people: with its present seating arrangements, but with loss luxury eould take in at least double that number. The body is largely of duralumin, and with motors and all equipment weighs only about four tons. Thus the dead weight is about equal to the carrying capa city, Contrast this with an ordi- uary passenger train, on a railway, where all the passengers and their baggago may weigh only 6 or 7 por cont of the empty traini
Kowloon-Canton Rail-plane?
Perhaps some day we may see a Betnie Rail plane running between Kowloon and Canton, over the existing railway
3th.This day. I take my un- cheon at the Queen's Picture House where I see a private showing of The Middle Watch, which Iren. member was played by the amateurs somo two years or less. And I lake. the greatest possible pleasure in it, for the picture itself is most ex- collent and I also find much joy
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The car is suspended from the mono-rail overhead, and the track wheels run on roller-bearings, with ly the route taken by the motor me the picture in a British one and 7th-Again very busy before the minimum of resistance, w
road. The journey between Canton that no less an actor than Owen going to the tennis and there I see There wheels themselves embody and Kowloon would take just about Naren do phy the part or Coplain dr: Fincher and Mr. L. Goldman a novel idea of Mr. Bennie's, viz, Long hour. ·
Maitland. This evening at the win their match; bad'' contrary to a ring of rubber inside the tyre. In the opinion of the lecturer, the Clubbs Creed makes an apology to the critics, I did think them pretty This gives wonderful freedom from Bennie Fail-plans in mechanically me for that he did call me a liar, apt, and I perceive they may noiss. The only function of these and economically sound. The stage for he hath found that a pretty defeat the Rumjalne if they do but from the effect of poloning, due, wheels is to support the car and of invention may be regarded lady, ho knows will travel in the co-ordinate their movements to it is alleged, to having consumed a run quietly and smoothly. They past, and the inventor and his Shippe and tells him that every better purpose. To Kowloon where quantity of sweets bought from are not, used for driving the car, associates are now mainly concern Saturday they shall drink a glass I dine with Mr. Creed and his Chinese shop in Shanghai, Street. nor for braking either. In the case ad with advertisement, and, pro- to Boy friends and Husbands Lady after walking in his garden | It is related that the children of the familiar railway engine, the paganda. Interested enquiries bave following so far as they may the which is wonder fine, and more vomitted after eating the sweet and tractive effort it can give to the already been received from rail atom of the Service. He may be especially his cinerarins and sarna were removed to the Kwong Wah train is proportional to the weight ways, transport companies, and has it that the ladies will take all, tions. But Lord it makes me sad Hospital where they were immedi roating on the driving wheels. This governments, in many parts of the their meals in the ward-room which at heart to think of the garden. I ately treated. The incident occur
red on Thursday and on the same pulling force. can be increased by world. and one may hope to see the if it be true be, for the breaking bave lost. the use of sand, to increase the rail-plane coming into fairly gen-of their fruits at least, a thing tooth. This day again very busy, outside the shop and started to palt evening bostile crowd gathered co-efficient of friction, and it may eral use at an early date.terrible that I cannot and will not be reduced almost to zero if from The lecture was illustrated by belinya it
and most fowle, day too, being it with stones and other misles. any course the rail becomes slip-set of axcellent lantern-slides, pre-
most hot and damp, whereas but The timely arrival of the police pary But in the Rennie rail-plans,sented to Professor Brown by Mr. 8th-Very busy all day in the Yesterday it was most cool, and I put a stop to, their demonstrations.. the condition of the rail, makes no George Bennie
folico..and then to the tennis but well high casatiat a chill by the One of the demonstrators disgrace and drive weight is of After the lecture, a heathy vote de confeas Think the doubles pavings off of an undergarment, hop before, Kylin apr no value, as the car is driven not of
was proposed by Mr A where the brothers Lo de meet 11 Writing early in my Diary This yesterday by its track-uppels but by air, H. Fenwick, H.Be ATC.E., the mjama be pretty poor light am to dine in one of the fined 825. He was also hou)
• to há of good behaviour keraws. This mode of propulsion President of the Society Weibing to my wife very busily in King great. Shipper