ENGINES IN THE COLD
RISKS OF ACCIDENTAL
STOPPAGE.
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(Received 27th May, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day,
Captain Harris, who was formerly a meteorological officer under the Canadian Government, and was also on board the airship R34, is at present in Sydney. Referring to Captain Amundsen, lie said he considered that neither the petrol engine nor the aeroplane itself had reached such a stage of perfection as would warrant such a risk being taken. In starting off, the engines would function, but if they stopped, as aeroplane engines have an unhappy knack of doing, nothing in the Arctic would start them again. Eveii in our temperate ciiniale, on cold mornings, motorists found difficulty in starting their .engines. He instanced Captain Scott's anotor-sledges in the Antarctic, which worked all right till they stopped, and then ceased forever..
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 27 May 1925, Page 5
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