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Photograph
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-00906-004-p0079
A prototype of the Alden staRRcar (also known as the self-transit rail and road car), designed by William Alden, rides along a constructed guideway adjacent to a street in Massachusetts. An unidentified person (sitting in the driver's seat of the staRRcar) reads from a newspaper; automobiles sit in traffic in the background. The photograph accompanies a letter from William Alden, President of Alden Self-Transit Systems Corporation, to Dr. Robert A. Nelson, Director of the Office of High-Speed Ground Transportation of the Department of Commerce, dated June 3, 1966. [Notes: Stamp on verso reads, "Photograph by Marvin Richmond, Worcester, Mass. Reorder by number 35377-6."]
Photograph
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-00906-004-p0077
Founder and President of Alden Self-Transit Systems Corporation, William Alden, sits in the driver's seat of his prototype Alden staRRcar (also known as the self-transit rail and road car) parked along the side of a road in Massachusetts. The photograph accompanies a letter from William Alden to Dr. Robert A. Nelson, Director of the Office of High-Speed Ground Transportation of the Department of Commerce, dated June 3, 1966. [Notes: Stamp on verso reads, "Photograph by Marvin Richmond, Worcester, Mass. Reorder by number 35380-2."]
Photograph
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-00906-004-p0075
Three prototypes of the Alden staRRcar (also known as the self-transit rail and road car), designed by William Alden, ride along a constructed guideway adjacent to a street in Massachusetts; an unidentified person (sitting in the driver's seat of the staRRcar in the foreground) reads from a newspaper. The photograph accompanies a letter from William Alden, President of Alden Self-Transit Systems Corporation, to Dr. Robert A. Nelson, Director of the Office of High-Speed Ground Transportation of the Department of Commerce, dated June 3, 1966. [Notes: Stamp on verso reads, "Photograph by Marvin Richmond, Worcester, Mass. Reorder by number 35454."]