The Accident!

The Experimental Train Company in Middleford conducted a so-called live test on their latest invention, a liquid fired engine. The purpose of the invention is to use a more “clean” fuel than coal and to use a fuel that is locally produced. The MacWall distillery does express their gratitude to the invention and does promise to produce as much fuel as possible.

The Inventor Mr Errol Jones is pleased to present his patent regarding the nozzle that mix the fuel with pure oxygen or pure hydrogen.

Mr Errol Jones the inventor was pleased.

The first run was quite successful and the engine reached a top speed of 105 mph. On the way back the engine driver filled the tank with more fuel before he set of. Unfortunately the fireman got a taste for the fuel and in a state of less sharpness he mixed up witch handle to turn for oxygen and for hydrogen. In a desperate state of making a  quick decision he decided to turn both of the handles at the same time. The speed reached was terrifying and both the driver and the fireman decided to jump of the engine or to be more correct the fireman more or less fell of the engine. In an act of bravery Mr Jones saw the runaway engine and throw the switch in the signalbox and sent the runaway engine on a sidetrack.

The engine hit the stop and got air born. The explosion that followed was devastating. Luckily no body was injured and the engine was quickly put a way from the public. But three weeks later a letter reached the Experimental company where Germany was asking for the blueprints of the newly invented flying bomb.

The only picture of the engine before it was taken away