20 MOTOR VESSELS FOR A BRITISH COMPANY
She increasing cost and decreased production of coal have given an impetus to the use of oil fuel. ■' ■' "Bis Atlantic lines are now working out plans for the nse of oil fuel," said the. editor of the "Petroleum Times," "and wo are on-the'eve of remarkable developments, including the use of internal combustion engines for oceangoing vessels as well us the employment of oil-fired boilers. Motor-ships of from 5000 to 10,000 tons,are already quite common. • "At least one British shipbuilding firm is already prepared to build imotor-liners of 4000-h.K.. and in the United States progress in this direction is even greater. The Elder-Dempster Lino has three motor-vessels on order; the Leyland Line, has plilced orders for twenty;,tho Gleni Line has civen orders for a number; and a motor-liner is being built for tho Brit-ish-India Company. "The pipe-lino which was laid across Scotland from Glasgow to Grangemouth in. order that U-boats should not inter-, fere with the. supply of oil fuel to the Navy, but was not actually finisheo' until after the armistice, should bo of great commercial value."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19191112.2.47
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 41, 12 November 1919, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
18420 MOTOR VESSELS FOR A BRITISH COMPANY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 41, 12 November 1919, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. 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 Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in