Technical World Magazine, Volume 12Technical World Company, 1909 |
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... hours at best , in what is practically six days . Show them a route which has been proved feasible by which they can do it in three and you will not lack passengers , no mat- ter what the price . We have the bal- loons , or can have ...
... hours at best , in what is practically six days . Show them a route which has been proved feasible by which they can do it in three and you will not lack passengers , no mat- ter what the price . We have the bal- loons , or can have ...
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... HOUR . A MERICA , woefully in the rear of progress in rock surfacing her highways , had built less than 30,000 miles ... hours there followed a suc- cession of interesting trips over a meas- ured stretch of one tenth of a mile of road ...
... HOUR . A MERICA , woefully in the rear of progress in rock surfacing her highways , had built less than 30,000 miles ... hours there followed a suc- cession of interesting trips over a meas- ured stretch of one tenth of a mile of road ...
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... HOUR. DESTROYING A STRETCH OF MASSACHUSETTS MACADAM . The tractive force of the rear wheels is practically pulling up the road's surface . ANOTHER RACER MAKING FORTY MILES AN HOUR . Its dust. and Chairman of the Good Roads Com- mittee of ...
... HOUR. DESTROYING A STRETCH OF MASSACHUSETTS MACADAM . The tractive force of the rear wheels is practically pulling up the road's surface . ANOTHER RACER MAKING FORTY MILES AN HOUR . Its dust. and Chairman of the Good Roads Com- mittee of ...
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THIS CAR WAS GOING SEVENTY - FIVE MILES AN HOUR WHEN PHOTOGRAPHED . Such speed tears up surfaces , but is not common on the roads . CAR COMING TO A SUDDEN STOP UNDER EMERGENCY BRAKES . fection the rock from which such road is formed ...
THIS CAR WAS GOING SEVENTY - FIVE MILES AN HOUR WHEN PHOTOGRAPHED . Such speed tears up surfaces , but is not common on the roads . CAR COMING TO A SUDDEN STOP UNDER EMERGENCY BRAKES . fection the rock from which such road is formed ...
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... hour . It was plainly observable that when the heavy cars passed over the road at speeds in excess of twenty - five miles an hour the tractive force of the rear wheels raised the road surface and caused windrows of dust to form , that ...
... hour . It was plainly observable that when the heavy cars passed over the road at speeds in excess of twenty - five miles an hour the tractive force of the rear wheels raised the road surface and caused windrows of dust to form , that ...
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