ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
VICTORIA AND OIL FUEL MELBOURNE. Aug. 2 The Victorian Kailway Commissioners are inviting tenders from overseas for the supply of Diesel eleetrip motors preparatory to the introduction of electric trains. The commissioners estimate that train!? can bo ' run on oil at a third of the cost per' mile of steam trains relying On coal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21560, 3 August 1933, Page 9
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56ELECTRIC RAILWAYS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21560, 3 August 1933, Page 9
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