“Hydrogenation”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 9

“Hydrogenation”

MOTORISTS are to have a new word added to their vocabulary. This word is “hydrogenation,” and it is likely to have, a far-reaching effect on the running of their cars. Hydrogenation may briefly be defined as a process of chemical science

which does instantly what nature would take many centuries to perform. In other words, it changes a given substance.

In the case of crude ' petroleum, with the aid of hydrogen gas and by the use of great heat and pressure, hydrogenation alters and corrects its chemical structure. It vastly improves the operating properties of the finished product. At the moment, one of the leading oil companies is busy on this task, and the fruits of its efforts are likely to be available to motorists at Home in the near future. So important is hydrogenation in chemical science that in 1931 the greatest scientific honor, the Nobel Prize, was awarded to Dr. Bosch and Dr. Bergius for their researches in this matter. THE Sheriff of Chambersburg, Penn- *■ sylvania, in disposing of the estate, of Frank B. Statler, sold a small motor car for the equivalent of 2s 6d and a horse for 2§d. A new Bentley car has been built by n Messrs. Rolls-Royce, The engine is of just under four-litres capacity, and the chassis incorporates an easycliangc gear-box, while, complete with a very low-built saloon body, it will be capable of its 100 m.p.h. THERE seems to be quite a boom in * the expensive car market in England at the moment. One manufacturer of luxury cars has his factories running to full output capacity and an appreciable delay in deliveries.