OIL-DRIVEN TRAINS
LONDON, Fell. 10.
Development of oil-electric locomotives will result in railway travel becoming us speedy as present-day commercial an; transport, members of the Institute ot Mechanical Engineers were told here recently. Elimination of the human .element m controlling trains has made an average speed of -jO miles an hour perfectly sale. Lieut.-Colonel L. R. F. Fell told Ins audience. Oil-electric engines offer many advantages besides speed, he said, but at present they cost about £27,000 each, compared with £9OOO for a steam express engine,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18036, 13 March 1933, Page 10
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