NEW MOTIVE POWER.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9594, 8 December 1896, Page 6

NEW MOTIVE POWER.

At Blackpool, Lancashire, a new system of traction has been inaugurated on a tramway line which rune from that place to Lytham, a distance of six and a half miles. The novelty consists in the car carrying its own motor, which is an Otto gas engine, driven by gas compressed in steel cyliuders, which are carried beneath the vehicle. The cars weigh seven tons each, and can be driven at a speed of twelve miles an hour. Like many of the axitocars now upon probation before the public, the engine in this car is kept going whether the car ia in motion or whether it is standing still, the flywheel making two hundred and sixty revolutions per minute. The* gas and air with which the cylinders are charged is ignited by means of an electric spark, and the working parts are kept cool by water circulation. The new car seems to be a great improvement upon previous attempts in the same direction, and it is alleged that the system is more economical in working than horse traction,steani, or electricity.

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