NEW LOCOMOTIVES
OIL-ELECTRIC, DIESEL-ENGINED
REVOLUTIONISING OF TRAVEL
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON, November 22,
The “Daily Mail” says: “In order to inspect oil-electric diesel-engined locomotives that are capable of drawing nine hundred passengers at a qipeed of seventy miles hourly, the President of the Board of Trade, Rt. Hon. W. C. Runciman, visited Armstrong Whitworth’s works at Newcastle. He will report oil the prospects to Right Hon. Mr MacDonald'.
“It- i,s claimed that the installation of these engines, which are also applicable to manufacturing, will revolutionise travel, and will save the railway coMpuniew twenty-two million, pounds yea illy, “These locomotives, four of which have been ordered for the Buenos Aires railways, resemble huge aluminium boxes. The driver is behind plate glass windows. He easily controls the 1700 horse power engines by .pressing the self starter (and pulling a lever. Tire fuel cost is eighteenpence an hour. The engines can be utilised both day and nio-ht- continuously. One that has been tested for six months ran for twenty-five thousand miles and worked for seventeen hours daily, and its total fuel and lubricating cost was £B7.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1932, Page 5
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