MOTOR TRANSPORT
COMING OF C.-L ENGINE
FARTHING A MILE FUEL COST
(British Offlclal Wireless.) RUGBY, November 1. The great advance of the Diesel, or compression-ignition type, of engine as applied to motor-buses and coaches .and to goods transport vehicles is one of the most striking features of the commercial motor . transport exhibition, which opens at Olympia tomorrow. One luxurious thirty-seater coach is shown which runs at a fuel cost of }d 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 sixty-nine* seater rail coach fitted with the latest typo of London bus engine, similar to that with'which a speed of 108 miles an hour was. recently attained at Brooklands.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1933, Page 7
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125MOTOR TRANSPORT Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1933, Page 7
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