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Show Oil-Burning Engine Will Revolutionize Railway Transport Can Be Operated at Half the Cost of Coal-Burning Locomotives. . : - .International News Service.) LOXDO.V, Due. 27. A revolution in railway transport id expected to be effected ef-fected by the invention and practical demonstration of an internal combustion combus-tion oil-burning engine. Sir Vincent L. Jiavcn, cliief mechanical engineer of the Northeastern railway, has designed, de-signed, had built and himself operated in tl:o initial test such an engine. Because Be-cause they can be operated at half the cost ot coal-burning locomotives the Northeastern has ordered fifty such engines en-gines as a starter. "The engine, built al h'.lswicl;, is an 0.8 superheated type intended for heavy freight.'' said Sir Vim-eat. "With a heavy freight .1. made thirty miles an hour, but the engine can do sixty miles per hour with a passenger train. The engine has a 20-inch cylinder, cylin-der, a L'6-ineli stroke and 1000 horsepower.'' horse-power.'' Albert Lidgelt. editor of the Petroleum Petro-leum Times, says: "Such an engine can be operated at half the cost of coal burners. The application ap-plication of the motor engine principta to the railwavs is a triumph for British Brit-ish engineering. We have been searching search-ing for the secret, of the Philosopher's Stone of the transport world for many years. ".Ior.3 t han 3 0,000,000 tons' ot eoal were consumed bv British railways last year. f the oil-burning engine has conn- to stay, as appears certain, this will be saved for general uses. |