USE OF PRODUCER GAS
TESTS BY GOVERNMENT
"In order to decide the practical utility ot producer gas equipment to conserve the stocks of liquid fuel used by motor vehicles, the Government has decided that .a thorough investigation should be undertaken," stated a letter from the Oil Fuel Controller. Mr. G. L. Laurenson. read at a meeting of the Wellington Technical College Board.
The investigation', it was staled, would include the running of bench tests with different types of New Zealand and overseas producer gas plants, /tnd for an investigation of that kind it was necessary to have available a dynamometer to absorb the power produced by the engine during the test.
The director, Mr. Ridling. said that the college possessed the only suitable Fronde dynamometer in New Zealand. It was decided to grant every facility for the investigation.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 3
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138USE OF PRODUCER GAS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 3
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