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Lenin

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To:   THE IZVESTIA VTsIK EDITORIAL BOARD

Comrade Steklov, Editor, and Comrade A. Belyakov, Izvestia Editorial Board

On December 20, Izvestia carried A. Belyakov’s article,
“New Ways of Reviving Railway
Transport”. [1] Will the author of the article inform me, giving the most precise
indication possible of the corresponding publications:

1) What is the source of the information that the method
of using the ordinary, slightly modified, lorry instead of a
railway locomotive has been tested abroad and has produced excellent results in general?

2) The same thing concerning the fact that in America
such lorries have been used on sidings.

3) About such lorries being successfully used in the
American army during the war (there must be information
about this, if the use was successful, in the American,
French and British press).

4) About the fact that trials were staged in London on
the Russian engineer Kuznetsov’s idea, which have proved
that a 30 h.p. lorry easily pulled a 9–10 car train at a speed
of 20 versts an hour. [2]

Lenin