KEEPING THE CAR GOING.

Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 328, 6 March 1930, Page 7

KEEPING THE CAR GOING.

:SOME QUEER MIXTURES. I What you get out of your car defends on what you put into it. And whati you put into it depends on where you are. In - America, for instance, army motor vehicles are being run on moonshine liquor, seized j from bootleggers. A report has been issued by the j officer commanding the military transport camp near -Baltimore that & New Zealander, Mr. Ernest Godword, discovered a way of using the spirit seized from bootleggers so that ;gas may be generated equal to ordinary benzine. Motor spirit firms say there is little chance of any of the moonshine being imported here. But from the outback of Western Australia recently came a report that beer was used in a radiator instead of water. The car was being driven from Wailnu along a letef waterless plain when the radiator became dry and those aboard were put to the test of being stranded miles from civilisation or emptying bottles of beer into the radiator. It was a hot and dusty day and they suffered from thirst. The car got them home, but the driver says that when he took off the radiator cap he discovered that boiled beer in a car gives off a more objectionable odor than beer and garlic.