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Show COAL GAS AS I FUEL FOR MOTOR H I We have not yet felt the pinch or H gasoline famine In this country as PpH our British cousins are feeling It. PPPJ The time may come when we shall PPPT be glad to have the benefit of their H ', experiments. t H "The first time that ever I saw Hv)u a motor vehicle 'fitted with a coal HrC container waa at the beginning Bf' at last September on the London ft B'" 'Bastbourne road. The distance be-fc's be-fc's tweea London and that favorite sea-Kt'' sea-Kt'' aide resort la sixty-four miles, Tho R-S' ,. Is' picturesuue and In summer Brrl and 'early autumn It la crowded with tjwhrata ears. But this was not a H "' private car,'' says Charles O. Harper H j , la aa laterestlng article appearing in t?! the February Issue of Motor. H "It was, In tact, a char-a-banc, --B C ' -public vservlce vehicle. I believe H' i a' there are four of these, running two H,'''' aervlee each way weekly. At that M '., y time no eae thought much about M eeelngas as a necessary substitute, H 'sMtause (although so short a while H Sl$;)Mt waa not then foreseen that B J-'""aasollae would be entirely prohibit- ssV' W 'V.u . " bbbbbV J staasa - E-Brrs icd for private cars or so-called pleasure plea-sure services. Already, however, gasoline had become frightfully expensive; ex-pensive; four shillings (ono dollar) a gallon, and. motorists sighed when they thought of tho days when it had been one shilling and sixpence (thirty-six cents), or a shade cheaper. cheap-er. If, therefore, the cost of motor spirit weighed so heavily upon private pri-vate users, what must be the burden of those who run heavy lorries, trade vans, omnibuses and chara-a-banca! The owners, therefore.-of those very heavy vehicles, consuming so very much more gasoline to the mile, were the firat to take up the question ques-tion of coal gas. They had not that necessity of studying appearance, which seems so Insistent to the private pri-vate owner, and they had, per contra the very vital need of practicing economy. So those who were using motors for trade purposes made no difficulties whatever about turning over to coal gas and having hugo gaa bags fitted." |