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Title: Scientific American Volume 88 Number 21 (May 1903)
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: scientific tion electric steam patent machine motor american star milk scientific american wireless telephone puncture proof milk cooler gas engine horse power brake horse great britain dairy plant
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MOTOR COACH BUILT FOR THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY, MOTOR COACHES FOR BRITISH RAILROADS. BY THE ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT OP THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Now that the automobile has asserted its superiorityover other systems of rapid locomotion upon thehighroads, and the engines for propelling the vehicleshave been developed to a high standard of efficiency,the adaptation of the motor car to railroads is being SECTIONAL ELEVATION OF KEROSENE ENGINE. utilization as a feeder to the through lines. Somebranch lines extending through sparsely-populatedareas cannot be profitably operated, although a trainservice is absolutely necessary. It is for such exig-encies that the self-propelled motor coach is pecu-liarly suitable, since the cost of maintenance is muchless than that of a fully-equipped train. The experimental coach constructed by the Londonand South-Western and the London, Brighton andSouth Coast Railroads, a photograph of which we areenabled to publish herewith through the courtesy

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