CONSERVING PETROL
ALTERNATIVE FUELS METHANE AND COAL GAS [KKOM OUH OWN t'OHItKSPONI)KNT] 1 LONDON, March 2 How Britnin is conserving her store of petrol l)y using alternative motor fuels is shown by two a 1111011 iiooinciits made this week. One refers to laundry vans in West Middlesex running on methane ga.s supplied by local sewage works. Metliami has hitherto been used in Enghind only -in stationary engines at half a dozen sewage works. West Middlesex has now installed a plant for filling steel cylinders known as "bottles" with compressed methane. A laundry firm near by is having its fleet of vans converted to the. itso of the gas at a cost of about £25 each, and will then get unlimited supplies of fuel from the sewage works at a price equivalent to petrol at lOd a gallon. The other announcement is that by Easter nearly 200 garages in the London area north of the Thames will be equipped to supply motor vehicles with coal gas instead of petrol. Producergas plants, or portable gas works producing the vehicle's fuel as it runs, are now being turned out in quantities, and prices are falling.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23615, 27 March 1940, Page 5
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