FUTURE ASSURED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 11

FUTURE ASSURED.

DIESEL ENGINES. BRITISH BUILDER'S VIEWS. | | SUITABLE FOR AIRSHIPS. (From Our Own Correspondent ) SAX KKANt'ISCO. dune S. The future of the Diesel engine is 'j assured in both the marine and aircraft field--, in tin* opinion of >ir Ernest Petter. foremost Hi it i-h de-jgner- . builder of D'm''. and li-adini' ni.inu- . facturer of military aiicia:! siii'-e 1!'14. . With I<3>• lVtter he arrived in la!i----1 fornia from London aboard the Dam-h Ea-t A-iatc in >'."r liner < anada. en 1 route 1" ihcir -aim ■11 fi-11itj u lodge at ( oinox. on Vancouver l-'and. ' Sir Ernc-t. for 4" year- the head of r the great engine-building lii m of ' Pctter-. Limited. of Veo\ il. and also founder-executive of Westlan 1 Aircraft, tli'nk- that the Dictel i- certain to -upplant the gasoline aircraft engine *it hin the neM decade. He nl-o l»e- ---• iieve- t hat the marine Di°-1 w ill -ooti tind it- nii-lie in tin* l>,c.-el electric drive, wherein a -hip "ill have perhaps 1" I>i<—el— generating current for her electric dri\ing motor-. . "No other tyjie of cng'iie. either -team ■.r internal combust ion. approaehe- lh° Die-el in efficiency." he declared. "while from the standpoint of safcl\ alone it ■- certain to supplant the ga—olinc motor in driving aircraft. The cnormmn strides in gas aircraft engine <le-:gu ;"f tile pa-t five years have made the ' Die-el problem more difficult for u-, but our day i- certain to come. "Simplicity an.l erfnomy a-e lwitli in " the Diesel's favour, and the perfection of several super-light nc« metal- proJ mise that the weight oli-tai-le can 1>» n overcome. Commercial airliner- will '1 ix- the first to n-e the Die-el." k Sir Erne-t. who i- a pa-t prr—ideni a of the Briti-h Engineer-' A-so.-.at i<-n. was a life lon™ fr>end o* 'lie (.<■ rv • a inventor of the l>ie-d engine and "••■k ■n I'rofe-sor Die-e] . c-ea: ■■ li w :icu ;he was l r '-t at sea in 1913. AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRAS*