The Hush-Hush Car! (1927)

“The huge locomotives of today didn’t grow up by rule of thumb. The dynamometer car is largely responsible for the scientific progress of the latest ’locos’“ L/S of a stationary train. Two men stand beside the train. C/U from low angle of carriage of the train which has the words “Dynamometer Car“ painted on the side. C/U of man looking at the wheels of the train. Low angle of three men, one straddles between two carriages, the other two sit on the roof of one of the carriages. A device is attached to the carriage on the right, joining it to the carriage on the left. M/S of the front of the train. Men climb up into the engine driver’s cabin. “In telephone touch with the driver - or Engineer on the footplate - within this special North Eastern car is a mass of valuable recording machines - each telling its own tale in graph or other form...“ C/U of two men at work in the special carriage. C/U of a piece of equipment. View from the moving train of the surrounding countryside. Another train pas