NEW LOCOMOTIVE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 11

NEW LOCOMOTIVE.

COAL AND OIL BURNER. :; LONDON, OetoW Kl . Designed to burn both oii and doiu, » locomotive jbtiili bj AfeeSfa fiiwh and Co., AiredaJ# Uictov.fe being subjected to ijfts W LbMon kud North-Eastern Hfcflfray . 00. fct Darlintftoni ~ - . .The engine, is tol# ospwlo of high speeds, and of reducing. nitt cofcta Hby 80 par oelit. _ ' ' '*' ' It is gathered unofficially .that e«peritaents have been successful,, <aj»d that they will }iave a .direct ( Wg on the immediate fatttffe bf rail trifle wirt. The hew ljj&tafrbtifd id intended foittfeeb fchd requirements of brdmary work on main-line services. Experimental Staff*. ' Mrffitson Clarkei managing direotW of the "Aitedale Foundry. who has been chiefly conoerned with the de- , sign of the engine, saysfo irnot mwtittg any claims oh its behalf antll , lias prdirfs and ia in the .'posiftoii of being able to back them by At tne moment the whole thing w in . the eesp&fimetital stagS.'" ' ' He explained that the present periments were- not in. the nature, of . official tests by th® railway company, but that the; L.N.E.R. hatf section of line at the disposal of his to, 66 that the priiteipte <£ «} Mh terftal combustion engine - applicable to railway engines could, be tested ontr The engine which had been evolved,he said, had pulled a ttaiO vp to 400 < tons. "If the experiments are cptn-<„ pletely successful, added Ifr. Clarke, "we shall witness % greatest revolution in locomotive traction mti<& Stephenson invented his first steair «nphe." ... y y u'< fw -. ;