GREAT ADVANCE
Diesel-engined Transport Vehicles 69-SEATER RAIL COACH (British Official Wireless.) (Received November 2, 7 p.m.) Rugby, November 1. The great advance of tlie Diesel, or compression ignition type, of engine as applied to motor-buses and coaches and to goods transport vehicles is one of .tlie most striking features of the commercial motor transport exhibition which opens at Olympia to-morrow. One luxurious 30-seater coach is shown which runs at a fuel cost of Id per mile. Self-changing gearboxes are fitted to many of the passenger coaches exhibited. some having eight different forward speed ratios. The biggest exhibit is a 69-seater rail coach fitted with the latest typo of London bus engine, similar to that with which a speed of 106 miles an hour was recently attained nt BrookIn nds.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 34, 3 November 1933, Page 11
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129GREAT ADVANCE Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 34, 3 November 1933, Page 11
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