Oil savings
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TESTS at the Transport at Road Research Laboratory's te track at Crowthorne, Berkshit using BP Oil's Vanellus FE e gine oil and Multigears FE ge oil instead of conventional or show an average financi saving of 3.16 per cent.
For a fleet operator with vehicles covering 2.25m mil with a fuel bill of £390,000 repr sents a saving of £11,000.
TRRL has developed and ir plemented control of test proc
• dures for fuel consumption me surements, which und, operational conditions could I subjected to outside influenc giving variations in results by to 100 per cent.
Driver technique, loadin weather, route, distance, ty pressures and temperatur were controlled so as to provi meaningful results.
All 15 vehicles which took pr in CM's 38-tonne Round Britt Economy run this year used I Oil's Vanellus FE engine oil.