From the Kearney Files
Shields Gazette 8th April 1933
The Kearney Tube
It is stated that the Moscow Council having interviewed Mr. Chalmers Kearney had decided to construct a railway on the Kearney principle.
South Shields people will extract from the statement a peculiar and lively interest.*
After all we as a community long hoped for that some Corporation would step in and pick up the tube scheme where we left off, just for the sake of giving the indomitable inventor his real opportunity. Now apparently it had come and we shall await the future with deep concern.
Success in Russia
My informant is the "British Australasian and New Zealander" a London journal which has its finger on the pulse of affairs in the Antipodes. The topic is sufficiently important I think to quote the paragraph in extenso.
"Mr. Chalmers Kearney the Australian inventor of a remarkable high speed railway system who had just returned from Moscow, went there in January at the request of the Moscow Council to confer on questions arising in the construction of the underground railways in that city.
"He was given a wonderful reception, shown the highest honours and evidently had a successful visit, since the Council has decided to construct a railway in Moscow on the Kearney system".
Several subsequent orders.
"When this is working the question of adopting the Kearney Tube System for Moscow's Metropolitan will be considered, not for the line now under construction but for several subsequent tubes which are to be built.
"Mr. Kearney's success in Russia (the journal adds) will give no pleasure in London to these people who have hitherto done their best to discredit him and prevent the Kearney tube from materialising because should its claims to efficiency and economy be realised in practice as there is an uneasy feeling abroad is likely, it's adoption anywhere would put other underground systems out of date.
* (Bloggers note, South Shields to North Shields under the Tyne was also a scheme pursued by Elfric).
Shields Gazette 8th April 1933
The Kearney Tube
It is stated that the Moscow Council having interviewed Mr. Chalmers Kearney had decided to construct a railway on the Kearney principle.
South Shields people will extract from the statement a peculiar and lively interest.*
After all we as a community long hoped for that some Corporation would step in and pick up the tube scheme where we left off, just for the sake of giving the indomitable inventor his real opportunity. Now apparently it had come and we shall await the future with deep concern.
Success in Russia
My informant is the "British Australasian and New Zealander" a London journal which has its finger on the pulse of affairs in the Antipodes. The topic is sufficiently important I think to quote the paragraph in extenso.
"Mr. Chalmers Kearney the Australian inventor of a remarkable high speed railway system who had just returned from Moscow, went there in January at the request of the Moscow Council to confer on questions arising in the construction of the underground railways in that city.
"He was given a wonderful reception, shown the highest honours and evidently had a successful visit, since the Council has decided to construct a railway in Moscow on the Kearney system".
Several subsequent orders.
"When this is working the question of adopting the Kearney Tube System for Moscow's Metropolitan will be considered, not for the line now under construction but for several subsequent tubes which are to be built.
"Mr. Kearney's success in Russia (the journal adds) will give no pleasure in London to these people who have hitherto done their best to discredit him and prevent the Kearney tube from materialising because should its claims to efficiency and economy be realised in practice as there is an uneasy feeling abroad is likely, it's adoption anywhere would put other underground systems out of date.
* (Bloggers note, South Shields to North Shields under the Tyne was also a scheme pursued by Elfric).
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