NEW MOTOR FUEL
DISCOVERY MADE AT BELFAST. CREOSOTE OIL FROM GASWORKS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, October 30. The “Daily Express’ ” Belfast o° r * respondent states : • Three chemists at the Belfast gasworks have perfected the discovery of creosote oil, as a isubstitut© for petrol, which, it is believed, will ultimately halve Britain’? motor fuel bill. The Belfast Gasworks are producing at th© rate of -half a million gallons yearly, which are eagerly snapped up at sixpence a gallon. A local bus Company is converting its fleet to its use, and has effected a saving of a penny a mile. Hundreds of private cars here are using it. London and several provincial city bus companies, are experimenting with it. The new oil is already being pro- -‘ duced at Manchester. The formula has already 'been broadcast throughout' the Empire. A representative of the ■Commonwealth Government who studdied the methods here, is on his Avay back, -and will recommend the encouragement of production throughout Australia.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1932, Page 5
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164NEW MOTOR FUEL Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1932, Page 5
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