Air cushions
31st March 1967, Page 58
31st March 1967
Page 58
Page 58, 31st March 1967
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Keywords :
Road Transport, Road Safety, Tourism, Travel, Rail Transport, Traffic Law, High-speed Rail, Land Speed Record For Rail Vehicles, Speed Limit
ANYONE looking for revolutionary air-cushion developments from the British Railways stable is likely to have to wait a long time. Sir Stanley Raymond revealed last week that the Derby research establishment—more advanced, he said, than any similar outfit in the United States—considered that speed limits with conventional steel wheels and tracks had not yet been plumbed. Hardly a surprising conclusion in view of a French rail speed record of 205 m.p.h. in 1955. Maybe the commercial vehicle industry will have to foster air-cushion surface developments?