PETROL CONSUMPTION METER
A new technical gadget is now being used by automotive technicians in the United States of America, which indicates on an electrical meter the number df miles a motor vehicle travels per gallon of petrol, just as the speedometer registers the speed of the vehicle in, miles 'per ,hour. The petrol-mileage indicator measures electrically both the speed in'miles per hour and the rate of flow of petrol in -gallons per hour,, and combines these two values in such a ’Way that the speed , component is divided by the rate,of 'flow, Such an instrument would no doubt prove acceptable : to many owners of motor vehicles, and maybe the time will come when a dial on the dashboard of automobiles /will indicate to the driver, gt all speeds, the number of miles being travelled per gallon of petrol.
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Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 11
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139PETROL CONSUMPTION METER Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 11
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