LOCOMOTIVE TEST
GREAT POTENTIAL VALUE
REDUCED FUEL COSTS
ißritisn Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, October 4
A locomotive designed to burn belli oil and coal, built by the firm of Kitson,, at Leeds, is being subjected to tests’ on the London and North-East-ern Railway at Darlington. Tiie .engine is stated to bo capable of high speeds, and of reduced fuel costs by 60 per cent. Mr. Kit-son Clark, managing director of the firm states that the principle of the internal combustion _ engine applicable to railway engines i,s being tried out. The' engine volred has pulled a train up to -160 tons. “If tha experiments .are completely successful,” he adds, “ shall witness the greatest . revolution in locomotive traction since Stephenson invented the first steam engine.” r - . --
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10710, 6 October 1928, Page 2
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