From the Kearney Files
Department of Commerce
Daily Consular and Trade Reports
( Consul S. M. Taylor Nottingham)
No's 75 - 151 Volume 2 April May and June 1913
The Kearney High Speed System.
Consul General John L Griffith's of London is in receipt of an inquiry from an American Railway Official respecting the Kearney High Speed Railway which was reported to have a full - size car for passengers built at Loughborough in the Nottingham District. The following statement has been secured with respect to the proposed system from Mr. E. W. Chalmers Kearney.
Although highly suitable for long distances High Speed Railways it is as an urban underground railway that its advantages stand out. The question of suitable subway systems in engaging the attention of several of the larger cities in the United States, particularly Chicago and Pittsburgh and I believe if the Kearney System were brought before the respective authorities and considered on its merits there would be no hesitation about its acceptance.
The fact that the average speed of a subway can be doubled by the Kearney System would ordinarily be sufficient to warrant it's adoption. But taken in conjunction with the great economies which can be affected both in capital, cost and operating expenses, together with numerous minor advantages only predudice could desire it's rejection. I am not in a position to incur the great expense necessary to demonstrate the Kearney System in America.
If funds could be provided for this proposal I could furnish working models and full size cars.
The working models are one sixteenth full size and run at an actual speed of over 30 miles an hour ( six times as fast as some scale models on ordinary track).
The cost of taking this over to the Eastern States and re - erecting 20 feet of track, gradients and three stations would be about £1,000. This model was on exhibition at the London Louvre all last summer and at Olympia, London last January.
The cost of building a full - size line of sufficient length to put the car I have constructed to a practical test would be £5,000. The largest working cars we have had for experimental purposes were there fourths full size, each car holding 20 persons and the results obtained were so satisfactory that I gave an order to the Brush Engineering Company of Loughborough to build a first class full size car.
In a country like America, the conditions are hugely favourable to such a system and the result would be of the greatest national importance. A Kearney line would place Washington within two hours of New York.
Department of Commerce
Daily Consular and Trade Reports
( Consul S. M. Taylor Nottingham)
No's 75 - 151 Volume 2 April May and June 1913
The Kearney High Speed System.
Consul General John L Griffith's of London is in receipt of an inquiry from an American Railway Official respecting the Kearney High Speed Railway which was reported to have a full - size car for passengers built at Loughborough in the Nottingham District. The following statement has been secured with respect to the proposed system from Mr. E. W. Chalmers Kearney.
Although highly suitable for long distances High Speed Railways it is as an urban underground railway that its advantages stand out. The question of suitable subway systems in engaging the attention of several of the larger cities in the United States, particularly Chicago and Pittsburgh and I believe if the Kearney System were brought before the respective authorities and considered on its merits there would be no hesitation about its acceptance.
The fact that the average speed of a subway can be doubled by the Kearney System would ordinarily be sufficient to warrant it's adoption. But taken in conjunction with the great economies which can be affected both in capital, cost and operating expenses, together with numerous minor advantages only predudice could desire it's rejection. I am not in a position to incur the great expense necessary to demonstrate the Kearney System in America.
If funds could be provided for this proposal I could furnish working models and full size cars.
The working models are one sixteenth full size and run at an actual speed of over 30 miles an hour ( six times as fast as some scale models on ordinary track).
The cost of taking this over to the Eastern States and re - erecting 20 feet of track, gradients and three stations would be about £1,000. This model was on exhibition at the London Louvre all last summer and at Olympia, London last January.
The cost of building a full - size line of sufficient length to put the car I have constructed to a practical test would be £5,000. The largest working cars we have had for experimental purposes were there fourths full size, each car holding 20 persons and the results obtained were so satisfactory that I gave an order to the Brush Engineering Company of Loughborough to build a first class full size car.
In a country like America, the conditions are hugely favourable to such a system and the result would be of the greatest national importance. A Kearney line would place Washington within two hours of New York.
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