PRODUCER GAS FUEL
MANUFACTURE IN BRITAIN [from our own* correspondent] LONDON, Feb. 13 The prospect that in the near future 10.000 heavy transport and passenger motor vehicles may he running on selfproduced fuel is hold out in a report issued by a committee set up in 1937 at the request of Viscount Caldecote, then Sir Thomas lnskip, Minister for Co-ordination of Defence.
A simple "producer" has been designed for the conversion of existing vehicles and capable of rapid mass production at a minimum cost. Only metals, plant and the type of labour likely to be available in war time would bo used. A trailer to carry the producer and its auxiliary gear has also been designed. Many inquiries have been received from manufacturers about the equipment, and 25 firms have been granted licences to manufacture. Fuel is available now for thousands of vehicles, and will be soon, the committee states, for "approaching 10,000."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 11
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