FUEL FROM EUCALYPTUS
MAY HELP AUSTRALIA
Hope for cheap motor spirit in Australia dawns again with the report that Spanish chemists are producing commercial motor fuel from eucalyptus \V OOti -
r uel already manufactured has been used in a heavily laden motor bus, and tin* cost of running the distance of 400 miles is said to have been about ss.
The Spanish Government has granted a contract to the chief of the Forestry Institute to make investigations and experiments. A test plant of simple design will be erected. .Reports state that the plant can be erected in small units, at little cost, thus obviating heavy distribution charges from a central depot. The plant consists of three ovens made of metal plates and rings of sheet iron, each oven being used for a. different phase of the process.
Comprehensive tests are to he made of the new fuel before a market is sought.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 13 September 1930, Page 13
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152FUEL FROM EUCALYPTUS Hawera Star, Volume LI, 13 September 1930, Page 13
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