COAL GAS
USE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES. NEW ENGINE RUNS WITHOUT PETROL. British members of Parliament are shortly to be shown new types of motor car engines driven by highcompression coal gas which, it is claimed, operate as efficiently as engines driven by either oil or petrol. Evolved at the National Gas and Oil Engine Company’s works at Ashton-under-Lyne, England, it is believed that the now engines may well revolutionise the fuel aspect of road transport. The importance of the development in the event of war. when supplies of imported fuel may be precarious, is realised in Government circles, where a keen interest in the new engines is being shown. A scheme for rationing petrol in war time was announced recently. Already the United Kingdom Gas Corporation is investigating the possibility of setting up gas-filling stations in various parts of the country. These will refuel gas-driven lorries and gasdriven motor vehicles from cylinders containing compressed gas or from gas compressors on precisely the same principle as that used in putting air into tyres. The whole operation occupies only a few seconds.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1939, Page 9
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180COAL GAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1939, Page 9
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