GAS AS MOTOR FUEL
INTRODUCED IN ENGLAND LONDON, Oct. 8. Picnic parties 'boiling kettles with “bottled gas,” and motor coaches running on “portable gas,” are among the novelties mentioned in the Gas Association's “hack to coal” conference at Leeds. Mr. A. \\. 'Smith, manager of the. Birmingham Corporation's gas department, disclosed that the Home Office had authorised the testing of a vehicle running on the roads with special steel cylinders containing gas at a pressure of uOCOIh. to the square inch. Tho department, he said, had received many inquiries for compressed gas for fighting and heating country houses, garages, cafes, and yachts. He expressed the opinion that compressed gas would assist undertakings to carry peak loads. Four experimental stations in Britain are developing the innovation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17911, 15 October 1932, Page 5
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