BURNS OIL AND COAL
NEW LOCOMOTIVE BUILT FUEL COSTS REDUCED British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. A locomotive designed to burn both oil and coal has been built by the firm of Kitson at Leeds. It is now being subjected to tests on the London and North-Eastern railway at Darlington. The engine is said to be capable of attaining high speeds and of reducing fuel costs by 60 per cent. Mr. Kitson Clarke, managing director of the firm, says the principle of the internal combustion engine as applicable to railway engines is being tried out. The engine evolved has pulled a train weighing up to 400 tons. If the experiments are completely successful the greatest revolution in locomotive traction since Stephenson invented the first steam engine will be witnessed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 477, 5 October 1928, Page 9
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