NEW MOTOR SPIRIT.
SOUTH AFRICAN INVENTION. London, Sept. 13. An Orange Free State farmer has invented a new motor spirit, made of certain South African chemicals, mixed by a secret formula, and including alcohol from the prickly pear. An important difference between it and other power alcohols is that the raw material grows wild and unlimited devastating thousands of acres of South African farms. Hitherto it has heen of no commercial value. Tests have an, average of 28 miles to the gallon. A company with a capital of £lOO, 000 has been formed to exploit the proposition, and to produce 2,000.000 gallons at about half the price of petrol. ——
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 7
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109NEW MOTOR SPIRIT. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 7
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