NEW VISTA OPENS
Great Success of Secret Steaming Fuel CUNARD EXPERIMENT By Telegraph— Press Assn.—Copyright. (Bee. June 26, 5.5 p.m.). London, June 25. Th® Canard Shipping Company’s New York offices have advised that the fuel testa carried out In the liner Scythia realised all expectations. Canard officials are delighted at the experiment. A new vista seems to have opened for British shipping. Merchant ships and the Navy will no longer be altogether dependent on foreign fuel. A well-kept secret was revealed after the departure of the Cunard liner Scythia from Liverpool for America on • June 12. It was that some of her boilers wetf» being fired with a specially prepared mixture—6o per cent oil and 40 per cent pulverised bituminous coal —made by a secret process. It was hoped that if the experiments were successful they would result in big savings in the line's huge oil bill, and would also have important effects on British coalfields, as the navy and the whole mercantile fleet are expected to adopt the new mixture in order to reduce fuel costs. *
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 232, 27 June 1932, Page 9
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177NEW VISTA OPENS Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 232, 27 June 1932, Page 9
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