CHARCOAL GAS
USED TO PROPEL CAR PERTH, • March 23. Charcoal gas is being used by a farmer, Mr. A. L. Creek, of Corrigin, to run a motor car, which did a. 100mile journey to Perth on a bag of charcoal, reaching a maximum speed of 40 miles an hour. The car was started on petrol, which was used for about a mile. When suffiicient charcoal gas had been generated the petrol cut off by releasing one acceleration, and charcoal gas was used by pressing another. The gas was drawn through a cleaner and conveyed by a one and a half inch hose under the floor of the car to the engine, where it passed through two cleaners and a small radiator behind the fan to an auxiliary intake manifold. Mr. Creek said the loss of about 20 per cent, in power was offset by the economy of the charcoal, and that extra power would be obtained when necessary by using the petrol accelerator.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 April 1933, Page 8
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