COAL POWDER
STEAMER’S SAVING OF 6s A TON. LONDON, September 1. Down in the stokehold of the Blue Star lioat, Stuartstar, berthed in the London Docks, engineering experts yesterday explored the coal pulverising plant which has been submitted to a long practical test. The Stuartstar, states the “Daily Chronicle,” has done a voyage ot 13,000 sea miles with some of her furnaces fired with this crushed coalpulverised to the fineness of women’s face powder. So successful has been the result, that when she sails on her next voyage, half of her boiler installation will he equipped for burning pulverised coal. Later this will he further extended. Mr E. A. Thomson, senior superintendent of the line, stated that the test had shown: Boiler efficiency raised 18 to 20 per cent; saving of 6s a ton on coal; fewer men required for hand-firing; same average speed for a lower power. “We feel sure,” he said, “that we shall eventually be able to equip many more of our fleet, and particularly those in our South American service, with pulverised coal plant.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1928, Page 7
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178COAL POWDER Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1928, Page 7
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