BUSES AND COAL
"We are about to see one of the greatest industrial changes within memory. Hitherto the use of gas for purposes of motor propulsion has been retarded by reason of the difficulty of providing a suitable storage tank. It is understood that that difficclty has now been overcame through the invention of a • particular class of steel tank capable of storing the gas compressed to the extent of 4000 tc SOOOIb to a square inch. The quality of the steel is believed to be such that in the event.of the pressure proving too great the metal will not burst and splinter,, but Will rip like a eilk fabric. Approaches have been already made by Jarge bus-owning companies to certain gas authorities, with a view to the provision of gas-filling stations. The quantities of gas estimated to be required are so astounding that, if they are ultimately realised, the problems that have so long depressed the coal industry in this country will effectually solved."—Mr D. M. Maiir, president of the Institute cf Municipal Treasurers and Accountants.
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Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3359, 26 August 1933, Page 8
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