HEAVY OIL ENGINE
TRIALS AT CARDINGTON
British Official Wireless. (Received sth October, 8 a.m.)
RUGBY, 3rd October. Air trials under the auspices of th« Air Ministry are taking place at Cardington, near Bedford, this week of a new aeroplane engine, which is the invention of the Manchester engineer, Mr. Alan Chorlton. The engine burns crude oil from which there is no danger of explosion, such as may come from. the use of petrol engines, while the fuel is much less in price than petrol, and. the consumption by the engine ia 25 per cent, less than that of a petrol engine. The engine has already been tested in the hangar.
Mr. Alan CJhorlton was until early this year chief engineer for Messrs. William Beardmore, Ltd., and had developed the oil-electric railway vehicle m use on the Canadian-National Bailways and "elsewhere and under consideration by the New Zealand Railways.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 84, 5 October 1929, Page 9
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148HEAVY OIL ENGINE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 84, 5 October 1929, Page 9
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