"oil firing" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1945 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 330",
          "text": "Another solution of the problem, shortly to be the subject of extensive experiments on the G.W.R., is oil-firing. This was abandoned on the G.E.R. forty years and more ago because the rising price of oil made it too expensive a method to continue; but the boot is now on the other leg, and the high cost and poor quality of present-day locomotive coal add considerably to the attractiveness of oil as a substitute. Other conditions being equal, oil-firing has much to commend it on long runs, and the firebox equipment needed is of a relatively simple construction.",
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          "ref": "1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the \"Claud Hamiltons\" & \"Directors\"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115",
          "text": "Oil-firing was now becoming more expensive than coal and no more \"Claud Hamiltons\" were so fitted after No 1859; the apparatus was gradually removed from the engines so equipped, [...].",
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        "The burning of oil in a furnace to provide heat, or in a firebox to generate steam in a boiler."
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          "steam",
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