1935-03-23 — Page 6

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

MARCH 28,1935.

"No More High Pitched

TAP TAP TAP ♫

Round the const of Catalina Island, California, there kre many sanis, which ara so wise that they know the tlae when this lady has thele dinner of freshly caught fish all ready

Fast Travel In Germany

#FLYING HAMBURGER

SETS PACE

On the new UNDERWOOD "CHAMPION"

- PORTABLE TYPEWRITER

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By E. 1. DIAMOND

In the Canadian National Railways Magazine.

T the end of August the wriler

Ante in jo ney in the wp dir

rection of the Flying Hamburger, and a general description of his experience may be of interest, for it would hardly be an exaggeration to any that this is a revolutionary mode of travel

A notice on the platform at which Hamburg Hauptbahnhof read "Schluss des Schnelltrieb- wagena," Indicating where the end of the high-speed car would stop (the Germans always provide the waliing passenger with the fullest Information regarding his prospec- tive train), provided assurance that the car was running, but the num- ber of people awaiting Its arrival was somewhat alarming in view of -the-train's-limited-accommodation: The time was shortly after 3 o'clock' in the afternoon, and the train was due to depart at 3.16. The waiting people were by no means all busl- ness men, or, as.is sometimes said, all foreigners. They wore precise- ly the same mixed company of people as one may find, for instance, on the Cheltenham Flyer and the surprise of some ladles when the train came in, to find that it was "electric", showed that some of the passengers were not even aware that a very special kind of train

was necessary to accomplish their journey for them in so short a time.

Shortly before ten minutes past three the train glided noiselessly into the platform, more like a hendtiful ship than a train, In ita gleaming purple and white paint, spotlessly clean. The writer was lucky to secure a corner seat, as niany of the seats had been provi ously booked, and the train was quite full. No one had to stand, but one

would be Interested to know how the problem of specially heavy traffic is dealt with in view of the evident popularity of this train. The weather was flac and at intervals. aunny, and there was a rather high wind which added to the interest of the train's perform. ance. Just before the scheduled time of departure the motors were started, and the effect was rather like that of the Westinghouse brake pumps of an electric train.

NO HURRY Punctually at 15.16 the Hamburg- er slipped out of the platform, so -smoothly · that it was at

evident that the motion of the train was so completely different from that of an ordinary train that a considerable experience of railway travel would not be of much as- Kistance in gauging the speed with- out actual measurement, and that the speed would scarcely seem so startling as one might expect. For, the first ten miles or so the speed is limited to 66 m.p.h. The closely- spaced stations in the vicinity of Hamburg.slipped past one after an- other, but all the while the motors were making a low hum and one feit that the train was only travel- ling at reduced power. Bergedorf, 10.4 miles out, was-passed-In-12- min. 20 sec.

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The immediate start around the long curvo on to the Berlin loo. had been quite slow and even the subsequent accoloration was almost imperceptible. Clearly there was- to be no special hurry about this run, 76 m.p.h. schedulo or 110. Then came a permanent way Black to a dead slow over an underline bridgo reconstruction

between

Bergedorf and Friedrichsruh. Once past this, however, the note of the motors suddenly rose until it died ('Continued on Page 7.)

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