NEW RAILWAY BUS
OIL-ELECTRIC SYSTEM
ADVANTAGES OVER STEAM
OVERSEAS OBDE.KS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August G, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 4. The new streamlined Diesel-electric railway bus, built by Armstrong, Whitworth nnd Co., to make possible rail travel at high speed mid low cost over short distances wns on show in London today. Currying iln own power, it has the adviinUigu ol1 quick starting and stopping without requiring tho lino to be olocl rilled. Tho liiim, which is 52J feet long, has i fid' sentH unil wplghb 17} tons. It can I travel nt 70 miles nn hour, and on a roeont tost covered 267 miles at a cost of 5.1W1 por mill!. A a tin) I'OHiiU of the performance by thii Armsl roiiß-Wliitworth stream-lined DiONcl-i'loclrii' rail bus between King's Crtms mill lh-rtford during demonstration runs in tlio presenceof Home and overseas niilwiiy oflicials yesterday, one overmans railway hits placed a contract for two iinits of a capacity equal to that of tho demonstration rail bus.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 11
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166NEW RAILWAY BUS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 11
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