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our letter pub" lished in "The Commercial Motor" dated March 21. We did not intend that the British Isles should be included in our claim to being the first to have an oil engine fitted to a private car.
We are correct in stating that we were the first to have an oil engine installed in a private car in Eire. Articles appeared in "The Oil Engine" at that time describing our oil-engined mill plant and transport.
We might mention that in 1940, owing to the petrol
shortage, we fitted the Perkins Wolf, which had already covered. 75,000 miles in the Standard chassis, into a 3-4-ton International truck. This vehicle had covered 50,000 miles on being sold by us in 1946. We understand that the vehicle is still in service and giving every
satisfaction. S. R. SHEANE, Wicklow. (For D. H. Haskins and Son, Ltd.)