“Do you think there is arty* prospect of driving cars with coal gas?” asked Mr. A. Peverill, the chairman of Mr.. F. W. J. Belton, engineer of the Christchurch Gas Company, after he had addressed the United Burgesses’ Association. Mr. Belton said that he was in touch with persons at Home who had pioneered the work. The results had been eminently satisfactory. Cylinders of high tensile steel were used, the cylinders, being charged with 1 gas at a pressure of 30001 b to the square inch. There were . many factors against the economical use of coal gas in motor vehicles in New Zealand. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1933, Page 5
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