TURBO-JET ENGINES WOULD MEAN CHEAPER AND SAFER MOTORING
Rec. 9.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 14. Several motor firms were designing car engines based on turbo-jets which powers fighter planes, said Mr James Hodge, jet pioneer, to Government technicians in London, says the Daily Express. He said that working like an aircraft power unit, but without a hot and powerful jet, they would make driving cheaper, safer, and more comfortable because first, they would run on paraffin and diesel oil, they would use hardly any lubricating oil, and would need fewer replacements, secondly, there would be fewer controls to distract the driver and there would be no clutch or gear lever, thirdly, there would be an absence of vibration. The new engines, he said, would be much smaller than petrol engines of similar power. Their only disadvantage was that they could not be used to brake cars down steep hills.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26980, 15 January 1949, Page 7
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