For peat's sake
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THE HAWK suggested (CM March 19) that a peat-burning traction engine might be designed for the Falkland Islands. In fact, a peat burner fc the Falklands would be possibl based on another Scots-built engine.
In 1867 R. W. Thomson of Edinburgh produced an 8hp road streamer running on rubber tyres, which was tested to haul 34 tons by road and wa: the first vehicle to gang plough At a test on Portobello sands, ir a steady downpour of rain, it ra up and down at lOmph.
In another test when two of Fowlers double-furrow plough: were set as deep as possible, th engine could easily plough up gradient of 1 in l2andturnattl headland without any trouble.
With a few modern improvements the Falklands could have a work horse for all their haulage needs.
THOS Mc-TAGGART, Hamilton, Lanarkshire