Re: [VIC] Wooden cars at high speed (was: [VIC] Parallel run)

[Andrew Price <aprice@mail.dotcom.fr>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:30:08 GMT, Mark Bau <markbau@altavista.com>
wrote:

>BTW, the PL's did not stay gaslit as long as they did because of their
>frames. They stayed gaslit because VR was cheap. RS corre' shows that
>various proposals were put forward to convert them but they were knocked
>back due to cost. A crash and burn somewhere in the world forced VR to
>realize that gas lighting wasn't such a good idea, regardless of the cost of
>conversion.

Indeed, the "burn" in your 'crash-and-burn' was almost universally
caused by the gas lighting systems.