Re: Alstom (Paxman/Ruston/Mirrlees) Diesel Rationalisation

["Eddie Bellass" <eddie.bellass@btinternet.com>]

ANDREW BREEN wrote in message <8dmqtu$jri$1@osfa.aber.ac.uk>...
>>The British diesel industry is still building engines for Incat's
fast
>>ferries
>>- - a number of these are powered by the Ruston RK270 engine.
>
>And the Paxman high-speed engines are selling very well. Ask the US
Navy
>what they use for diesel power..
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Our local (Newton-le-Willows) weekly paper reported today
that the new Heysham - Belfast Seacat ferry is powered by
four Ruston Diesel engines (type not specified) costing
UKP One Million *each*.

Them's dang expensive sea horses!

Eddie.

Eddie Bellass, Newton-le-Willows.