engine hour
English
Noun
engine hour (plural engine hours)
- An hour of operation of an engine.
- 1964 January, “The maintenance of B.R. diesel-electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 54:
- Locomotive care is based on a system of preventive maintenance on an engine-hour basis. The majority of locomotives are not yet fitted with engine-hour recorders and examinations are, therefore, based on a computation of the locomotive-hours in traffic.