Gas Turbine for . Mining Truck
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AA REGENERATIVE gas turbine engine is to be installed in a vehicle to be used for hauling ore from an open pit Mine of the International Nickel Co. of Canada in the Sudbury division of Ontario.
The engine, a GMT-305 Whirlfire, manufactured by the Allison Division of General Motors Corporation, produces 225 h.p. It is a multi-fuel engine with more than doable the power of a piston engine of comparable capacity.
The mine should provide an ideal testing ground for the turbine-engined truck, which will have to travel almost two miles over winding roads, at a. gradient of approximately 1-in-12, with a load of 32 tons. The district is also subject to frequent spells of sub-zero temperature.
TASMANIA WANTS INDUSTRY 'TASMANIA wants British motor 1 manufacturers to invest in the island's expanding economy, and is sending a four-man industrial mission to this country on April 4. The mission will try to persuade a number of industries to join in the "new industrial revolution" which is turning Tasmania into an important manufacturing state, but the motor industry will be one of the mission's special targets.
One of the most mountainous islands in the world, Tasmania boasts the cheapest hydro-electric •• power in the southern hemisphere.
FLUORESCENT HEADLAMOS MEW high-intensity fluorescent lamps
fitted lengthwise across the front of vehicles would reduce glare and give greater uniformity of light distribution than present lamps. This is claimed by the American General Telephone and Electronics Corporation, Who hope that the development will be adopted by the motor industry for vehicle headlights.
A controllable beam emitted through a 30° window in a fluorescent tube would replace or supplement conventional lights.