PULVERISED COAL—NOT YET.
It was recently snggested by the Hon. G. M. Thomson, M.L.C., that, in view of the great economy likely to be gained by tho use of pulverised coal on the railways, the Government should set apart one of the shorter railway lines for an exhaustive trial of the system. Replying, in the Council yesterday, Sir William Frasar said the Railway Department had already been experimenting with pulverised coal, and had also kept closely in touch with other railway systems where experiments had been made. ■It was, however, considered undesirable to incur the large expenditure which would be involved in converting locomotives, providing the necessary machinery for pulverising the fuel, and building the stores in which to keep the fuel dry, until the experiments in this country and elsewhere had established beyond question that pulverised coal could be used for everyday purposes as effectively as ordinary fuel. Meanwhile, experiments elsewhere wero being closely watched. . ■ .
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 11, 13 July 1922, Page 7
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