MOTOR TRANSPORT
EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA REMARKABLE FEATURES (Received November 2, R-5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, Nov. 1 The great advance of tho Diesel, or compression ignition, type of engine a? applied to motor buses and coaches and to goods transport vehicles is one of the most striking features of the Commercial Motor Transport Exhibition, which is to bo opened at Olympia tomorrow. Ono luxurious 30-seater coach will bo shown, which runs at a fuel cost of Jd a mile. Self-changing gear boxes are fitted to many of tho passenger coaches to be exhibited, some having eight different forward speed ratios. The largest exhibit is a 69-seater rail coach fitted with the latest type of London bus engine, similar to that with which a speed of 106 miles an hour recently was attained at Brooklands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21639, 3 November 1933, Page 9
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134MOTOR TRANSPORT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21639, 3 November 1933, Page 9
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