Successful Test Of Marine Gas Turbine
Received Fridav. S..10 jj.m. LONDOX, July 2. Successful trials in the Solent of the marine gas turbine installed in a motor gunboat will probablv opeti a new era not 011 Iv for the Xfivv but also for all meivliant shipping. The Admiraltv aunouuccd that the gunboat powereu by a gas turbine, unit and tAVO contentiunal engines covered a measured distauei* at a speed exceedinng 34 knots. The Admiraltv stated, however, that the 1 est was jiot a sjteed test, but w^s to disenver how gas turbine machinery stood ii] » to marine conditions. Reuter recalls that i\rr. Dugdale stated in ihe ( 'ommons in introducing the Xaw's estimates on Alarch S thut "if the gas tuibine succeeds steamships will I >e as out of date as sailing ships. '• ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 July 1948, Page 5
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