NEW MOTOR SPIRIT
USE FOR PRICKLY PEAR. SOUTH AFRICAN INVENTION. LONDON, September 13. An Orange Free Stale farmer lias invented a now motor spirit, made of certain South African chemicals, mixed according to 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. The prickly pear devastates \ thousands of acres of South African farms. Hitherto it has been of no commercial value. Tests of the new spirit gave an average of 28 miles to the gallon. A company with a capital of £IOO,OOO 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18674, 2 October 1922, Page 7
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120NEW MOTOR SPIRIT Otago Daily Times, Issue 18674, 2 October 1922, Page 7
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