MOTOR LINERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 59, 24 October 1911, Page 8

MOTOR LINERS.

NO FIREMEN, FUNNELS, OR SMOKE.

So rapid lias progress been made at Whites inch., near Glasgow, with the construction of the 500-ton oilongined liner for the Danish East Asiatic Company', Copenhagen, that it is now expected she will he running demonstration trials on the Clyde before the. end of the year.

Tiio vessel is to have a speed of 12 knots, and it is believed that 100 tons of oil v.dll take her as far as would 300 tons of coal. There will bo no firemen, funnels, smoke, ashes or dirt, and the onlines can be started in five minutes, compared with 15 hours required to raise steam with boilers. The only other boat of the type in course of construction in the kingdom is being built at Middleshorongh for a shipping company of which Lord Furness is chairman. She is a vessel of 3000 tons, and will be engaged in the North Atlantic trade. If the experiment is successful, other oil-en-gined ships will be built for the same co'mpany. It is on the Continent that the bulk of the enterprise in connection with the application of oil-engines to oceangoing vessels is centred. Two are in hand for the Hamburg-American line —one of 0500 tons on the Weser, and another of 5500 tons on the Elbe. The German Levant lino and the Hamburg South American Company have also motor boats on order, and the German American Petroleum Company have just placed a contract with a firm in Kiel for two petroleum tank ships, with a carrying capacity of <OOO tons each. They will run between European ports and Eastern Asia.' These cargo vessels of moderate size will bo followed by passenger motor liners of huge dimensions, and the speed of Transatlantic travel will he considerably increased.