The use of gas as a motive power is also largely on the increase, and its application in this direction canuot but be promoted by the introduction of electric lighting. In some of the notices we have from time to time given of this method of illumination, we have had occasion to refer to the successful, and economical use of gas engines for generating the electrical current. Besides this, the advantages possessed by the gas engine over steam, and the perfection to which it has been brought, have rendered it available for numerous other purposes where only small powers are required and where the use of steam is prohibited. The best and most finished example of tliis class of motor is the Otto silent gas engine, by Crossloy Brother!, of Manchester, which we have seen successfully working in more than one instance in connection with electric lighting London limCß.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6062, 22 April 1881, Page 6
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