FORTY MILES FOR A PENNY.
NEW MOTORING INVENTION. White House, Washington, is not the chief thing that worries Mr. Henrv Ford nowadays: his chief anxiety is the "Baby Diesel" in San Francisco,' according to a Canadian commercial visitor who recently visited London. The " Baby Diesel" is a little engine now being manufactured by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Union Bay, 'Frisco. Mr. Ford is jealous of it because the " Baby Diesel" has solved the problem dearest, perhaps, to his heart and mind—the pi'oblem of a motor fuel so cheap that anybody can run a car. The new engine will haul a Ford 50 miles on one gallon of fuel that costs Ud a gallon. The same stuff was used in submarines during the war. The visitor also explains Mr. Ford s statement that he would show the world how to burn coal twice. The Ford plant at Walkerville is now building yet another half-million dollar plant, designed after a Canadian invention, to distil out.of a ton of, coal as much as 10 gallons of motor fuel. The plant has a capacity to treat 400 tons of coal daily. The fuel being a pure by-product the coal hums as well after the process as before. The chances seem excellent.
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Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 474, 24 September 1923, Page 2
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