NEW LOCOMOTIVE
BURNS OIL AND COAL [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Oct. 3. A locomotive designed to burn both oil and coal, built by the firm of Kitson, at Leeds, is being subjected to tests on the London and North Eastern Railway at Darlington. The engine is stated to be capable of high speeds and of reducing fuel costs by CO per cent. Mr Kitson Clarke, managing director of the firm, states that the principle of the internal combustion engine, as applicable to railway engines, is being tried out. The engine evolved has pulled a train of up to 400 tons. If the experiments arc completely successful, ho adds, wc shall witness tho greatest revolt tion in locomotive traction since Stephenson invented the first steam engine.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19281006.2.56
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
Word Count
125NEW LOCOMOTIVE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in