On a side note, it's hard to avoid thinking that Bennie was been inspired to create his railplane by a ride installed in Kelvingrove Park for the 1911 Glasgow International Exhbition, which consisted of airship-shaped gondolas flying across the River Kelvin suspended below an aerial track.

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