Using coal gas for file! instead o> petrol. °a car attracted milch iidorosl in \ruv Plymouth recenlly. To all intent? and purposes the performance of the engine differed lit lit 1 front that of a petrol-driven ear. "The only difference in appearance was a cylinder, bail! on the right-hand running' hoard, in which carbonising coal, free front tar. burned The driver explained that a temperature of 15C0 degrees centigrade, produced In a flame controlled by tho suction of tho engine, converted the coal into gas, which was then led into the engine by an ordinary pipe.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 3
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