SOLID PETROL
iona petrol is nowu practical lace anu its uses were demons traieu me oilier dya at the offices of the bolicnnea ireiroleum Company, in JNorioiK btrcet. The new invention makes it possible for a motor car to run l'2{)o miles without stopping, carrying- its petrol supply in a brown-paper parcel. Solid petrol has the appearance of dirty ice. It is carried m lumps in a neat box at the side of the car, and this small box will carry as amount of solid petrol corresponding to 40 gallons of petrol in its liquid state. The number of lives lost annually owing- to petrol fires is a large one, and when liquid petrol ignites it often spreads over an enormous surface. When solid petrol ignites • the name keeps to the small surface of the 'block, and- can easily be Blown out. The ship of the future, probother day at 'the offices of the Solidipetrol bunkers, which will store' sufficient petrol to carry her round the world. ■
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Grey River Argus, 27 April 1911, Page 7
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