DRIVING TRAINS WITH OIL

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1920, Page 4

DRIVING TRAINS WITH OIL

The silent war upon Old King Coal continues with astonisiTinjj fervor. One of the English railway; companies has now perfected a loco-^ motive on the internal combustion; principle, with fuel oil for power* just like a motor-car, a submarine, or an aeroplane. Already the new^ model has hauled a heavy goods train at 30 miles an hour. The locomotive is quite different front the oil-fuel engines of the Americans lines. It will cost barely half the outlay of the old coal engine, being a crude, oil-fed Diesel, or am adaptation of that type. Britain; is wading into fuel-oil at a. great pace. Even in the Argentine, where scores of millions of English money, are invested, the British-owned railways are beginning-to us© petroleum in their engines instead of coal afc £6 a ton.