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From the Kearney Files
Boston (USA) Boston Sunday Post July 26th 1908
Copying Boynton's Road? The English Bicycle Car
The friends of Moody Boynton the famous inventor of the Boynton Bicycle Railway are decidedly interested in a recent report from England telling of the testing of a car which they claim is almost an exact model of the car designed by
Boynton for his road.
It runs on one rail the car being held upright by another set of wheels running on a overhead rail. This manner of supporting the overhead rail is slightly different from that adopted in Mr. Boynton's invention the principle is the same. The car is also built somewhat after Mr. Boynton's original and is cigar shaped.
Last week Mr. E. W. Chalmers Kearney gave a demonstration by means of a working model of this new railway by which he claims that a speed of 300 miles an hour may be obtained with safety.
A close friend of the inventor Boynton said to the "Sunday Post" yesterday " it seems a crying shame that for years Mr. Boynton had to fight for a chance to put his invention into practical operation in this state. He has been dogged at every step by the railroad companies and their friends and they are fighting still, now we find England going into extascy over what they call a new invention which as far as we can see is simply another variation of Boynton's plans. The principal of supporting the car is exactly the same. As far as you can see the only difference is in the method of supporting the upper rail.
Mr. Boynton at enormous expense built a railroad to give a practical use of his plans said it proved an unqualified success in every particular. Yet although that happened years ago Mr. Boynton is still unable to get a working railroad in this state because of the opposition before referred to.
Interesting point on comparisons between the two systems, is that both had enormous pressure and criticism from established railway interests.
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