RAILCARS—ELECTRIC AND OIL
| Railcars, it is cabled, will be a feature at the Commercial Motor Show, about to open at Olympia, London. One type has a heavy oil engine of 130 horse power, and can carry seventy passengers. The adjective heavy applies to the oil and not (grammatically) to the engine, still the engine is of considerable weight, which means that it must draw itself, the car, and the passengers, and cover all costs out of what the passengers pay; so the decisive factor is how many passengers can /be attracted from competing road services (that is, in so far as road services are permitted to compete). A railcar drawing electric current from an overhead System would have less weight in that it would not be equipped with engines but only with. motors, but, of course, there are many other factors in the question of electricity and oil on rails. Practical working of small units on railways should presently be advanced enough to teach new lessons, which might be important to suburban traffic on an electrified Weillington-Paekakariki section.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 6
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178RAILCARS—ELECTRIC AND OIL Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 6
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