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Greyhound crusaders
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GAS-TURBINE powered and valued at $320,000 (£165,00-0); Greyhound Lines' MC8 Crusader is one of this month's first unusual coach visitors to Britain.
The 12-metre three-axle coach has been brought to England to be exhibited at the Annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre on April 9-13. Whilst in Britain the coach will also visit provincial cities and towns to promote Greyhound American activities to the public and to the travel trade. The coach is to be driven by a full-time American Greyhound driver on special detachment.
The reason for the high. value of the coach is its 310hp Detroit turbine engine, coupled with a version of the Allison automatic transmission.
Greyhound claims that among the advantages of the gas-turbine power unit is that it only has half the number of moving parts of a conventional diesel engine, it is quiet, it needs no water or radiator and it cannot overheat. The total power plant weight is nearly one ton less than a conven tional engine. 4