NEW USE FOR JET ENGINES
Received Thursday, 9.45 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 20. Two jet engines monnted side by side on a low railway truck and ttsed like giant blowlamps, took oiily five minutes yesterday to clear a sndwdrift 75 yards long and 4J feet high, which held up powerful goods engines for several days on the line outside Grantham, Lincolnshire. The engines, primed with parafin, were pointed towards the drift. The hot air from the exhausts either melted or blew the snow away. A Ministry of Supply official said that they would be used on other impassable tracks. "We may have found the solution of the country's transport difliculties, ' ' he -said.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 February 1947, Page 5
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