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Dec. 07, 1973 - Model of New Linear Motor Test Vehicles. Professor Eric Lai thwaite, who developed linear motors for the new defunct hovertrain - wants to build a full scale version of a new high speed Tracked Hovercraft Ltd, which was closed by the Government. The new machine on which his group was working, was described as magnetic rivers'. It could provide prepulsion and suspension for high speed trains on one unit. Photo shows Professor Eric Laithwaits, with a laboratory model of a high speed vehicle on the magnetic river's track, which can float, guide and propel a high speed vehcile
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13288443
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47070402
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