"FROZEN” PETROL
NON- jNUUAAIMAI’.UU LIQUID NEW YORK, Jan. 1(1. “Frozen” aeroplane gasoline that will not ignite under a blow-torch was demonstrated at Roosevelt Field yesterday as a solution to one of flying's greatest fire hazards. The inventor is Asscn Jordanofl', 42, noted aeronautical engineer and Bulgarian Great War flying ace. The-gasoline, while not frozen solid, is reduced by an alcohol and dry ice mechanism to about 150 degrees below zero fahrenheit, where it does not give off enough vapour to catch fire. It is stilt- liquid enough, however, to flow out of the lank into heating apparatus which prepares it for motor consumption.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 8
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103"FROZEN” PETROL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 8
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