Re: Compressed air car

"nightjar" <nightjar@ (insert my surname here>.uk.com) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying :

The technical unfeasibility of it was ridiculed.

It is technically perfectly feasible. Compressed air and stored steam
railway locomotives were once common in mines, refineries and chemical
works.

No argument there.

It's the rest of it that doesn't stand up.
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