PRODUCER GAS FOR VEHICLES
COMMENT BY TRANSPORT AUTHORITY If carrying firms had producer gas equipment installed on their vehicles to avoid the use of petrol, it did not mean that there would be no restrictions on the granting of transport licences, said the No. 4 Transport Licensing Authority (Mr S. V. Raines) yesterday when hearing an application for the renewal of a licence. If there were too many operators in any area it did not follow that the position would be remedied by installing a producer gas plant, he said, as it was possible that in such cases the carriers might be operating at only 56 per cent, efficiency. Referring to the applicant’s request for exemption from the 30-mile restriction for the carriage of furniture, Mr Raines said he considered it was only logical to allow exemption to carriers in suitable cases if producer gas was used on vehicles instead of petrol. That, however, was only his own view, and he did not know the opinion of the authorities in Wellington. For the present he had received instructions that all exemptions from the clause should be revoked for the duration of the war, ~w
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Southland Times, Issue 24243, 28 September 1940, Page 6
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194PRODUCER GAS FOR VEHICLES Southland Times, Issue 24243, 28 September 1940, Page 6
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