THE MOTOR LINER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 10 May 1912, Page 3

THE MOTOR LINER.

One of the great attractions of the new motor liner Selandia, now on her maiden voyage to the East, is the silence which reigns on board in,the absence of the great and complex steamdriven engines (a London correspondent wi'ites). Even the noisy exhaust, which is accepted as one of the drawbacks of oil engines, has been neutralised by a very simple arrangement. The while of the exhausts of the engines are led through long cylindrical tanks, finall}' exhausting up the mizzen-mast, without the slightest noise. "I was rather struck with the fact," writes one of the many experts who are accompanying the vessel on her voyage, "that there were no disagreeable, offensive burned-oil smells in the engine-room; in fact, the air was quite as pure as in an ordinary steamer."