COCONUT SHELLS
FUEL FOR NEW MALAYAN LOCOMOTIVE, British locomotive engineers have built a locomotive and tender, for an estate in the Malay Peninsula, which will be fuelled with palm fibre '■ and coconut shells instead of coal. It has a chimney specially designed to keep sparks from flying but and setting alight to the plantations through which the engine will run. There is also an elaborate boiler feeding arrangement made necesary because of water conditions on the estate. In working order, the engine weighs 15 tons and the tender 7J tons, the latter carrying 500 gallons of water and 120 cubic feet of fuel. The gauge is 700 mm. (2ft. 3Jin.), and the boiler has a working pressure of 1601 b, per sq. in.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 5
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123COCONUT SHELLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 5
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