OIL FUEL VERSUS COAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 307, 22 May 1911, Page 5

OIL FUEL VERSUS COAL.

Mr. J. J. Kermode, M.l.Mech.E., of Liverpool, delivered a lecture to the members of the Liverpool Shipping staffs' Association on the question of "Liquid Fuel."' After referring to the fact that the sources of supply of oil were every day becoming greater in number, the lecturer indicated the progress of ofl, which he characterised as one of the romances of industry. The use of oil fuel on locomotives and industrial engines was demonstrated, and the lecturer went on to remark that, however rapidly we might be advancing in steamship engineering, we had not yet reached that state of perfection as regards the internal combustion engine that would warrant any shipowner making the venture of placing an order for a fast ship of large power to be driven by internal combustion engines. The announcement that a vessel of 7000 tons was being built on the Clyde, which was to be Jitted with internal combustion engines using crude oil, had occasioned much interest in shipping circles, and whilst welcoming this huge experiment, engineers were not at all sure that the revolution was so imminent that shipowners need begin in n panic to scrap all their steam, ers.