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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2599, 22 October 1915, Page 9

pearod, and in this connection it has to ba remembered that valuable expericnco has been gained from the great use made there of electric traction. Tho result is that thcro are now several very largo accumulator-making concerns supplying nothing elso but starting and lighting batteries. Thcro has been no attempt to improve or adapt accumulators only suitable for much lighter work, and thero can be no doubt that this lias been an important factor in the success and phenomenal development of tho combined lighting and starting sots. The large scale on which those sets aro made iias brought down the price to a figure which enables clwm to bo fitted 011 to cars selling in England at less than £500. Efforts are also being niado to standardise a coilignition system in combination with threo sots. It is not certain by any means that this ;vill come about in view of the strong position of the magneto. The manufacture of magnetos in America still continues, aixl on a vary large and increasing scale, so that this does not look as though it will bo supplanted.

Substitute for Gasoline. "Thero lias been much anxiety in the motoring world of late over the use iu the price of gasolene, but it is not so much the grievance of tho moment as the fear of the futuro that agitates tho motorist most," says an American expert. "Tho power of the gasolene producers is beginning to ba realised, and it is seen not only that gasolene is going to increase in price in years no come, but that the amount' of the increase may possibly be very large. There is, therefore, a determination to experiment with alternative fuels, of which there arc several more or less suitable, and to adopt carburetters constructed for their proper vaporization. The most favoured of alternative fuels is paraffin,' which in consequenco of the comparative difficulty of breakiug it up properly into vapour form, needs a special design of carburetter, but tho only drawbacks are, odor, oiliness, and a tcndeucy to produce carbon deposits ill the cylinders. There are, however, a groat number of paraffin engines, which have done satisfactory work for