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CREASOTE OIL PERFECTED PRICE, SIXPENCE A GALLON. LONDON, Oct. 30. The Daily Express Belfast correspondent states that three chemists at the Belfast gasworks have perfected the discovery of creasote oil, a substitute for petrol, which they believe will ultimately halve Britain’s motor fuel bill. Tho Belfast gasworks arc producing the oil at the rate of 500,000 gallons yearly, which is eagerly snapped up at sixpence a gallon. A local bus company is converting its fleet to its use which has effected a saving of a penny a mile to 100 private cars here using it. The London and several of the provincial and city bus companies are experimenting with it. The new oil is already being produced in Manchester The formula has already been broadcastied throughout the Empire and a re presentative of the Commonwealth Government, who studied its methods here, is on his way back to recommend the encouragement of its production throughout Australia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 258, 1 November 1932, Page 7
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