CHEAP TRANSPORT

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 7

CHEAP TRANSPORT

oil-electric trains. A £20,000,000 RAILWAY SAVINQ. Mr C. J. Hyde Trutch, of .the Dies?! Electrical Traction Department of Sir I W. G-. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co,, speaking at a recent meeting of the Isptitute of Transport in London, contended that many advantages, including,a saving of nearly £20,000,000 a year, would be obtained if British railways adopted the oil-electric engine in place of the steam locomotive (reports typ "MfSP&h.ester Guat4iap"). Details of Savings. ' Be estimated tJ»»t't)»e fpllotyjng ininimum savings would be. effected each year:— ' - ' A ' • £ "Maintenance 6,000,000 Fuel . .. 8,400,000 Engine staff wages . '4,000,000 Water • * .. '.. 860,000 • Total'.. \ ••

''This (iouutjcy is in danger of failing behind unless the railway directars a, bold policy immediately,'' t»e. §ai4. ''The figures pre at least sufficiently striking to justify the railway companies purchasing sufficient unit? tp obtain th§*'necessary data to prova the wwct Extent pf replacement durable. |t might be argued }hat tlje golHary -<sompaiiies tvpu}d 1 raia§ spjne outqry against the importation pi oil to talcp the place of home-produced coal, but the IMOO.QQO tons of coal spnsnmed by the railway? represents'only 6.8 pgr 'oept of the tonnage raised in 1939, and ft small reduction of flight rates n»fide possible f>y reduced, operating evpipiSQP by increasing Jheir competing poyrer, pe of far "greater value to th<j collieries tyan lost railway purchases, _ ' ' TraJn Driven *fey Qup'j£ap. * itself its aspfS' ■ Boripsmust be &Q r design^JtJi&t no tention whatever is required, -wtoH tta fWfeg? Tbe train #nthei> be driven one m*n> yrlMHwftl# fay. engine much in. the motor-bus il.-ner trofcta Ijis cugme.

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