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Bus-Like Trains Run The Rails In France
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keywords: france, mass transportation, rubber-wheeled train
Synopsis: Using rubber wheels a bus-like train is introduced in France for mass-transit and a smoother ride as a more nimble way to transport citizens from one destination to another...(read more)
- Date: 1931
- Duration: 00:00:43
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: France
Bus-Like Trains Run The Rails In France
Paris France- A marvelous new invention takes the jogs and bumps out of travel, making things easy and comfortable for the tourist. The huge high-powered vehicle attains a tremendous speed in a trial run that upsets the records of steam-driven trains (conveyances) operating on steel wheels. The lightweight car shoots noiselessly along the tracks at a 77-mile an hour clip in the test spin, and proves itself an answer to the competition of the motor lorry.- Related Titles:
- Newsreels: 1931 - August 10
