NEW MOTOR SPIRIT.
USE FOR PRICKLY PEAR. SOUTH AFRICAN INVENTION. London, Sept. 13. An Grange Free State farmer has invented a new motor spirit, made of certain South African chemicals, mixed according to a secret formula, and including alcohol from the prickly pear. An important dicerence between it and other power alcohols is that the raw material grows wild and unlimited. The prickly pear devastates thousands of acres of South African farms. Hitherto it has been of no commercial value. Tests of the new spirit gave an average of 28 miles to the gallon. A company with a capital of £lOO.OOO has been formed to exploit the proposition. and to produce 2,000.000 gallons at about half the price of petrol.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1922, Page 7
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120NEW MOTOR SPIRIT. Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1922, Page 7
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