JAPANESE USE CHARCOAL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20887, 19 August 1939, Page 28 (Supplement)

JAPANESE USE CHARCOAL

It is reported that the Japanese Government is going to extreme lengths in order to prevent a possible increase in the consumption of petrol by private motorists. The metropolitan Police Board of Tokio has been instructed by the Home Office to refuse the registration of new passenger cars unless they are equipped to run on charcoal gas or other substitutes for petrol. To prevent a boom in second-hand vehicles, which are still allowed to use petrol,' their transfer from one owner to another has been prohibited. The result of this order has been the suspension by some car manufacturers of the assembling of new passenger vehicles with the exception of a few carrying charcoal gas generating equipment in tho luggage boot Probably the first medical man to use a car on his rounds, Dr. F. Alexander Barton, a pioneer motorist, died recently. While in practice in Kent, in 1807, Dr. Barton brought, back from Belgium a 3 horse-power Yivinius, jyst after the red flag regulation had been abolished. Me used it on bis Kentish rounds alternately with the customary Victoria.