USE OF TOWN GAS
POWER FOR MOTOR VEHICLES. A suggestion that town gas be used for running motor vehicles, was made by the Gas Engineer-Manager, Mr J. Douglas, in his report to last night's meeting of the Borough Council. Mr Dcuglas stated: “As far as this country is concerned very little, if any, town gas has been used. Suction gas plants are in use on some of the large lorries, but that is entirely a differeni proposition to running on town gas. Those units are self-contained and generate the gas in a producer attached to the vehicle, the gas being generated from low-grade coal, charcoal or coke. To use town gas an expensive compressing plant would have to be installed, cylinders to contain the gas would have to be made and the carburettors would have to be changed on each machine. At the present time it would be rather hard to estimate the cost. Petrol is being taxed to maintain and build New Zealand roads, and it would be a matter of how much they would tax the gas if town gas were used on the roads of our country.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 7
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190USE OF TOWN GAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 7
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