CRUDE OIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 179, 30 July 1932, Page 12

CRUDE OIL.

USE ttt MOTOR CARS. INVENTOR CLAIMS SUCCESS. (6y Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, this day. Suoceea with his invention of a carburettor which allows for the use of crude oil for motor cars, has been won by Mr. James Carlisle Whitenian, & native of Wanganui. according to advice received yesterday by his daughter, Miss G. Whiteman, of Wanganui, and ae publiehed in yesterday's Auckland "Star." The inventor has sold the South American rights for the patent for about*°sEl3o,ooo, and it is understood that a company has been floated in London and another in South Africaj in which Morris Motors are interested. Now in his middle sixties, Mr. Whiteman was born in Wanganui, and until the outbreak of war he was a dealer In German dyes. When the trade disappeared ho set out to make money in other ways, and for a number of years he has been experimenting with the patent that has now brought him a fortune. Experts were at first highly amueed but now* it is stated, a number of them have confirmed the inventor's claims. It is reported that a heavy Sedan car which did 19 miles to the gallon of petrol did 20 miles when fitted with the patent carburettor. With the use of the new carburettor it is possible for a car to be run on & number of fuels, including petrol, paralcohol, benzol, crude oil from fchdle tar and petroleum. It is Stated that the cafbon deposit that is left is negligible. From first grade crude oil, it ie eaid, better results can be obtained than from No. 1 refined petrol. The principle of the device ia extremely Simple. The carburettor Vaporises the fuel used and miXee it With air in such a manner that the gas generated enters the engine cold, It Was thought that It would bo extremely difficult to start an engine on crude oil when the temperature waa low, but tests showed that it started easier than petrol.