GAS FOR MOTOR-CARS
Doubts About Invercargill Invention Doubt, as to the success of the Invercargill invention which, it is claimed, enables a motor-car to be driven by gas fuel was expressed yesterday by a Wellington engineer and a chemist, who have specialised in gas problems. Both said that the particulars contained in the Press telegram were insufficient for them to give a detailed opinion, but a certain amount of work had already been done in the gas propulsion of motor vehicles and thousands of motors were being run in England and on the Continent by this method, cylinders of highly compressed gas being available in the same way as petrol at petrol stations. Neither had previous knowledge of the Invercargill invention, but said that some system of purification of the gas given off was essential before it entered the engine. They did not doubt that a car fitted with the device had been driven from Invercargill to Dunedin, but said that sooner or later the owner would incur engine trouble such as “sooting up.” They remarked that there was no explanation of how speed could be regulated, and one observed that driving a car with a coal furnace attached would not be the most pleasant of occupations on a warm summer afternoon.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 139, 7 March 1936, Page 10
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212GAS FOR MOTOR-CARS Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 139, 7 March 1936, Page 10
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