MOTORING ON COAL GAS
NEW TYPE OF ENGINE DOES AWAY WITH PETROL LONDON, August 11. British members, of Parliament are shortly to be shown new types of motor car engines driven by highcompression coal gas which, it is claimed, operate fas efficiently - ®s engines driven by either oil or petrol. Evolved at the National Gas and Oil Engine Company’s works at Ashton-under-Lyne, England, it >s believed that the new engines may whll revolutionise the fuel aspect of road transport. The importance of the development in the event of war, when supplies of imported fuel may be precarious, is realised / in Government* circles, where a keen interest in the™, new engines is being shown. A scheme for rationing petrol in war time was announced recently. Already the United Kingdom Gas Corporation is investigating the pospibility of setting up gas-filling stations in various parts of the country. These will refuel gas-driven lorries and gas-driven motor vehicles from cylinders containing compressed gas or from gas compressors on precisely the same principle as that used in putting air into tyres. The whole operation occupies only a few ’’Seconds.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 14
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184MOTORING ON COAL GAS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 14
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