POORER QUALITY PETROL
The repeated complaints by motorists in the north of poor petrol are attributed by a service station to the low octane rating of the present-day fuel. Motorists say that their engines will not idle and that they accelerate poorly, cough and splutter and even cut out when the throttle is opened. It is stated that the pre-war average octane rating was over 70, whereas to-day it was around 60. Water in petrol was another suggested reason. \
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26633, 2 December 1947, Page 6
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79POORER QUALITY PETROL Otago Daily Times, Issue 26633, 2 December 1947, Page 6
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