WATER INSTEAD OF PETROL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2562, 3 April 1923, Page 4

WATER INSTEAD OF PETROL.

Kir E. J. L. Strong, of Sidmouth, claims to have discovered a process by which water can be turned into the equivalent of petrol and that the spirit can be produced at 4d a gallon, as compared with 2s, at present price of petrol. Mr Strong is a well-known motorist, and has taken part in many reliability competitions. I went to Sidmouth and asked Mr Strong for a demonstration, but lie respectfully declined, saying he had none of the ingredients with which he treated the water by him, writes a London pressman. He admitted that they could be obtained but it would not be policy for him to get them locally, as he might be giving himself away. Asked to explain the process, Mr Strong said into half a gallon of water he poured a pinkish powder that caused the water to effervesce, and then he poured in a fluid which he carried in a phial. The treated water then had the qualities of petrol. He claimed that it was equal to petrol in every way, worked out at the same mileage, possesed the same pulling properties and at the end of a run did not cause any more carbonisation than petrol. He says he has already driven his machine, a 7-9 h.p. Harley-David-son, 4,000 miles on his fuel.