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Aerotrain, a propellor-driven locomotive powered by an aeroplane engine, at Moscow Railway Station

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dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: not known
dc.coverage.spatialMoscow, Russia
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-25T03:21:08Z
dc.date.available2016-02-25T03:21:08Z
dc.date.createdJul 1921
dc.date.createdJul-21
dc.identifierP126-69
dc.identifierK4136
dc.identifier.otherK4136
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/99097
dc.description.abstractThe locomotive crashed on 23 July 1921 on the Kursk line while taking delegates attending the 3rd Congress of the Communist International on an excursion. Several passengers were killed in the accident, including Tom Sergaev, Russian Minister for Mines, and Paul Freeman, an Australian socialist Party delegate to the congress. Sergaev is photographed leaning on his elbow in the cabin. Freeman and Paddy Lamb, another Australian who rode on the aerotrain, may be among the crowd on the platform, but they have not been identified (See also NBAC N57-239 and NBAC N57-297). According to John Playford’s notes NBAC (P128-158) the aerotrain was invented by an Australian engineer called Brennan.
dc.format.extent16.5cm x 23cm
dc.format.extent16.5cm x 23cm
dc.format.mediumphotograph
dc.format.mediumb&w
dc.format.mimetypeimage/tiff
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofMiscellaneous photographic collection
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAU NBAC P126 - Miscellaneous photographic collection
dc.rightsThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University
dc.subject.otherMiscellaneous photographic collection
dc.subject.othertrade unionists
dc.subject.othertrains
dc.titleAerotrain, a propellor-driven locomotive powered by an aeroplane engine, at Moscow Railway Station
dc.typeImage
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dc.rights.licenseThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University
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