HUGE PETROL CUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13770, 13 October 1942, Page 3

HUGE PETROL CUT

LONDON'S BUSES HELP

TO SAVE 30,000,000 GALLONS A YEAR

Twenty nf t s?r Ws Li n ' S giant passen*M lb, Soon be trailing beminiature anthracite licer*., . nat th ey can run on protead ° f petro1 ' In ll* CS a year of r <>ad lh %li kel ," bus es will save someone gallons of Petrol; Sort hn. ° f the 800 Lond ™ fin' 68 Suitabl e for converS* tint UP for the n ew fuel, te io bo ; n a er f Will be relieved of ° ,pe N : a ' ryin S 7,000,000 gallons ~ ' e ar, u ' th' H 1(0 J }' n save petrol. AlipUSm6rdal Nicies are ?^ at C NgaS ' and the Gov- >* Vhf 63 with

of vehicles producing their own carbon monoxide gas is the successful result of continuous research into fuel problems since the war began. The first producer-gas unit was made by an Englishman during the last war but subsequent development has been principally in Europe, where, however, it centred rather upon the charcoal fuel to be had there rather than on the coke or anthracite used in Britain. The present success of British chemists and engineers has therefore been achieved from an entirely fresh start.