CHEAP POWER FOR ENGINES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11450, 1 February 1918, Page 4

CHEAP POWER FOR ENGINES

87 PER CENT. AIR “Orescent” air gas may lie described as a complete town gas supply in miniature, with all the uses and advantages of coal gas, but infinitely safer, cleaner and loss costly to run. It constitutes a self-con-tained equipment for country homesteads, churches, hotels, hospitals or entire townships. In the“Orescent” installation at Eirregurra, Victoria, 4jo miles oi piping is employed, and the service is giving the utmost satisfaction.

Besides illumination in its various forms, the gas answers admirably for gas fires, stoves, heaters, irons, vulcanizers, sterilizers and brazing apparatus. Complete combustion being assured by the large proportion of air (97 p&r cent.;, there are no fumes given off. Wall switches may be fitted, giving the same convenience as electricity; press the button! Thus the term “electric gas.” The gas generator combines the principles of a motor car and a grandfather clock. The instant a burner (or burners) be turned on in the house, the machine of its own accord generates the necessary supply of gas. Similarly the machine automatically ceases to produce gas the moment all burners are turned off. The system requires very little attention. Fill the holder with benzoline, wind up the weight, and the machine docs the rest. No heat is required to generate the gas, and not one drop of liquid petrol enters the house. The most important part of any air gas, is its means of vaporising the benzoline. The old idea was to drip the spirit upon gauze or wicks, and trust to the inake of sir to do the rest. In warm weather, this method though somewhat crude,gave fairly good results, but when it came to cold snaps or sea air, the waste benzoline that clogged the workings and had frequently to be removed, was a constant source of annoyance. Only by means of continual adjusting and regulating could anything like good results be obtained. In the “Crescent,” a proper mechanical carburettor _is provided to cope with this coutin-' goncy and so well does it act that every drop of spirit is vaporised no mattter how cold the weather; there is never any -waste petrol or dirty water to remove,- algo’ no adjusting beyond what was done at the factory.

Further particulars with pleasure from BO WICK and BE ACOCK, Huntorville; CANNING and OILBERD, Napier; A, G, McGREGOS, Mangaweki ; or E. OAWTHRAY, Raetihi;-FITZGERALD & HOBBS, Fciidiug.