DIESEL TYPE MOTORS
STRIKING ADVANCE MADE-
EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 1. A great advance of the Diesel oi compression ignition type of engine as applied to motor-buses and coaches and goods transport vehicles is one of thcmost striking features of the commercial motor transport exhibition which opens at Olympia tomorrow. One luxurious 30-seater coach is shown which runs at a fuel cost of id a mile. Self-changing gear-boxes are fitted ti. many other passenger coaches exhibit ed some having eight different forward speed ratios. The biggest exhibit is a 69-seater rail coach fitted with the latest type of London bus engine, similar to that with which a speed of 103 miles an hour was recently attained at Brooklands.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 3 November 1933, Page 5
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122DIESEL TYPE MOTORS Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 3 November 1933, Page 5
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