ALL ELECTRICAL SHIP
OPERATED BY ONE PERSON. SUCCESSFUL FINAL TRIP. (United Press As sedation.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON. August 30. (Received August 30, at 11.30 p.m.) From the captain’s bridge one person at the switchboard operates the new allelectric ehip Brunswick, of 9000 tons, built by Scott’s at Greenock for the American Oil Company. A successful trial tnp was made on the Clyde. Four Diesel engines drive the dynamos generating the electricity which drives the motors geared to the propellers. The ship steers herself automatically. Her performance will be closely watched throughout the world in view of the equipment of future passenger vessels on the Diesel electric principle. —United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20501, 31 August 1928, Page 9
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