From the Kearney Files
Dated Tuesday 11th. April 1933
Soviet Banquet for Victorian
Monorail tube for Moscow.
Writing from Moscow in February to a friend, Mr. E. W. Chalmers Kearney inventor of the Kearney High Speed Mono - Railway a banquet was given in his honour by representatives of the Soviet on the evening of his arrival from London.
The Soviet he says is providing him with facilities to build the first Kearney Railway in Moscow.
He was engaged in drawing up plans and specifications. Mr. Kearney who was born in Geelong has lived for a long time in England. His railway was designed to revolutionise the London tube system and was approved by the Ministry of Transport.
In 1930 Mr. Kearney gave lectures and demonstrations of his model railway in Australia. His scheme for a tunnel under the Yarra between Williamstown and Montague was rejected on financial grounds.
Lectures and Interpretations
"My model is now in one of the Moscow Museums" Mr. Kearney says. ," I am giving a lantern and cinema lecture which will be interpreted".
Representatives of the Government gave me a wonderful reception at Moscow. They met me at the station in a magnificent saloon car and drove me to the hotel where they reserved s presidential suite for me.
" That night reserved seats were placed at the disposal of my two interpretors and myself at the Opera. We saw a marvellous display of old Russian life.
The next day we were driven to the former Czars village. Here we saw the famous places which are in the same condition as before the revolution.
Personal photographs and rich jewels were displayed in the same condition as the last Czar and his family left them.
The Moscow Committee had invited Mr. Kearney who left London on January 12th, travelling by Rotterdam, Kiel and the Black Sea to Leningrad.
Dated Tuesday 11th. April 1933
Soviet Banquet for Victorian
Monorail tube for Moscow.
Writing from Moscow in February to a friend, Mr. E. W. Chalmers Kearney inventor of the Kearney High Speed Mono - Railway a banquet was given in his honour by representatives of the Soviet on the evening of his arrival from London.
The Soviet he says is providing him with facilities to build the first Kearney Railway in Moscow.
He was engaged in drawing up plans and specifications. Mr. Kearney who was born in Geelong has lived for a long time in England. His railway was designed to revolutionise the London tube system and was approved by the Ministry of Transport.
In 1930 Mr. Kearney gave lectures and demonstrations of his model railway in Australia. His scheme for a tunnel under the Yarra between Williamstown and Montague was rejected on financial grounds.
Lectures and Interpretations
"My model is now in one of the Moscow Museums" Mr. Kearney says. ," I am giving a lantern and cinema lecture which will be interpreted".
Representatives of the Government gave me a wonderful reception at Moscow. They met me at the station in a magnificent saloon car and drove me to the hotel where they reserved s presidential suite for me.
" That night reserved seats were placed at the disposal of my two interpretors and myself at the Opera. We saw a marvellous display of old Russian life.
The next day we were driven to the former Czars village. Here we saw the famous places which are in the same condition as before the revolution.
Personal photographs and rich jewels were displayed in the same condition as the last Czar and his family left them.
The Moscow Committee had invited Mr. Kearney who left London on January 12th, travelling by Rotterdam, Kiel and the Black Sea to Leningrad.
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