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Thanks for another great issue,
especially when I discovered a
picture of my lorry taken at
Truckfest Peterborough!
I drove the Scania XT belonging
to Poulton Building Supplies. Both
myself and my employers werePRIZE SUPPLIED BY SEARCH IMPEX
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Web: http://www.search-impex.co.ukLETTER OF THE MONTH
Morrison
musings
Having just read Bill Dean’s
article about Jacob Morrison’s
oil engine in the Summer issue
of Trucking, I wonder if you
could put the following
questions to Bill please:- Is there any evidence that
wondering if you could send us a
few copies of the original picture?
If you were interested in the
future I’m sure my employers
would be interested in talking to
you with a view on running an
article in the magazine. I’m sure it
would make for interesting reading.
Garry Chambers,
Jack Poulton & Sons,
By emailNo problem, Garry. And good idea
about a feature – we’ll see what we
can arrange! –ed. ■ABOVE Jacob Morrison’s No 1 Oil
Motor was the true first diesel engineRIGHT Poulton’s
brand-new Scania
P410 XT was shown
off next to its restored
ERF B SeriesIt’s summer, and once again time
to spot the amazing Kuljetus
Auvinen Oy trucks in Helsinki.
I spotted this one parked up
today at Suvilahti Power Station.
Nick Smith, via FacebookSummer stunner
no trace. An advert he placed in
the Middlesborough Gazette in
1914 declares he repaired and
was expert in gas and oil engines,
also electric motors. He also
regularly sold patents for
improvements in existing engines.
“He seems to have been that
very British ‘man in a shed’ (or in
this case, windmill) who tinkers
away and never cashes in on his
big invention.“I doubt Rudolph Diesel had
heard of Jacob’s work. By that
time there were many engineers
trying to do what Jacob had
already done a lot earlier. Indeed
,I doubt even his fellow
engineers on Teesside realised
what an amazing advance
Jacob’s engine was. Coal was
king – which is ironic, because
Diesel used coal dust first in his
engine with explosive results.”Morrison built more than one of
his oil engines?- Is there any evidence that
Rudolf Diesel was aware of
Morrison’s engine?
With many thanks for a
fascinating article – I worked in
the diesel engine industry many
years ago!
John Ingham,
By email
Thanks for your letter, John. Bill
says: “There is no evidence that I
could find that he built more than
one engine, though it would be
possible. But as the North East
was a centre for steam power, his
invention was a real “coals to
Newcastle” waste of time. No-one
was interested. He seems to have
spent his subsequent engineering
life working on petrol and electric
engines. There is a claim he built
the first petrol-engined car in
1889, sold for £26 10s to a Leeds
butcher, but apart from two
newspaper references I can findRIGHT Spot on: Kuljetus
Auvinen takes tricked-out
trucking to a whole new level