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TURBINE TRUCKS IN THE 1910s
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Ford of America announces 375 h.p. engine
V ORD OF AMERICA, convinced that the turbine engine will play an important part in trucks of the future, has announced a new 375 h.p. prototype research gas turbine engine designed specifically for a current truck model.
Called the Model 707 Turbine, the new engine made its debut at this month's annual meeting of the American Trucking Association in Washington, and has been installed in a US Ford W-1000 heavy-duty truck.
Marketing of the 707 is not expected before the early 1970s and to advance the turbine design towards production stage, Ford has put a new gas turbine laboratory into operation at its Dearborn (Michigan) research and engineering centre.
Nearly 15 years' work by Ford engineers went into the new engine, which, claims Ford, provides numerous technical and operational advantages. "For instance," says the company," compared with a conventional truck engine of equivalent h.p., the new 707 weighs one ton less and occupies considerably less space. It can pull nearly 37 tons at up to 70 m.p.h."