MOTOR TRANSPORT
EXHIBITION AT* OLYMPIA . MANY STRIKING FEATURES. (British Oiliclal Wlieless.) RUGBY, November L (Received Nov. 2, at 5.5 p.m.) A great advance of the Diesel or compression ignition type of engine, as applied to motor buses and coaches and goods transport, vehicles, is one of the most, striking features of the commercial motor transport exhibition, which will be opened at Olympia to-morrow. One luxurious 30-seater coach is shown, which runs at a fuel cost of |d per mile. Selfchanging gear boxes fitted to many passenger coaches are exhibited, some having eight different forward speed ratios. The biggest exhibit is a 69-seater -rail coach, fitted with the latest type of London bus engine, similar to that with which a speedy of .100 .miles an hour was recently attained at Brooklands-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 9
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