A Producer-Gas Motor Boat.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 4, 1 February 1906, Page 84

A Producer-Gas Motor Boat.

Messrs. Thornycroft and Co., of Chiswick, are the builders of a new departure in motor boats, as up to the present gas plant has been considered too heavy for use except in boats where weight is

not of great importance. The gas motor is a cheap one, the cost working out at i-iod. per horse power per hour. The boat is sixty feet overall, with a ten foot beam, constructed of steel, and is of the yacht design. She is fitted with four cylinders and engines of the internal combustion type, capable of making three hundred revolutions per minute. The plant consists of a generator, a cooler and scrubber, and a motor. The coal is consumed m the generator by means of air blown through it. The gas that is given off is collected and cooled, and then admitted to the engine and consumed in the same way as petrol.