Gyro monorail

1907 developed the Irish- Australian engineer Louis Brennan, a gyro-stabilized monorail, in which the vehicle was driven on steel wheels with double flanges on a single flat bottom rail.

Technology

The technical structure is described as follows:

For the modified version by Scherl describes the same source:

In the illustration of the modified by Sherif plans monorail car with two middle rows of seats opposite the marked letters mean:

• A) centrifugal,
• B ) drive axles,
• C ) centrifugal coupling,
• D) oil pump,
• E) servo motor for artificial additive adjustment,
• F) travel switch,
• G) pantograph

Applications

A first model was run on a reduced scale and in 1910 a demonstration plant in full size in White City / London. A model was presented on November 10, 1909 in the exhibition halls on the Berlin zoo to the public. Brennan presented his test car also 1909 in Gillingham, England. In London Brennans car was presented in an exhibition at the White City in 1910 during operation.

The Berlin Publisher August Scherl propagated in 1909 in an advertising pamphlet entitled "A new high-speed railway system," the gyro-stabilized monorail as a means of transport for local and long-distance transport of the future, that will soon encompass the whole of Europe.

Scherl campaigned together with the Chief Executive of the Upper Taunus circle, Knights of Marx, the project of a monorail am Taunus edge for use in Germany. From Marx visited 1911 trial operation in England and reported:

This project, however, was canceled before a final decision, and other projects did not exist.

From 1921 to 1922 Pyotr Petrovich Shilovsky tried to develop a similar single-track railway, for at least an 11-km test track between Saint Petersburg and the then Detskoye Selo was built. Technical problems and lack of money ended the project.