Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-19 | Page 21 | Motorists Twin to other Fuels

MOTORISTS TWIN io ora FUELS Gasoline Famine ? Possibility, Survey Is Made for Other Sources S'o question at the present tithe la more Interesting to motor truck own-, rs than that which relates to fuel. lib .i gasoline shortage always a pos-I sibil I ty many truck owners are oi-' sldcrlng the question of other fuels fot use In their vehicles. If the average truck owner werej puked wh.it fuels were available for' motor truck ns.. he would probably sa gaso,Ilne and kerosene. As a matter mat-ter Of fact there are almost a dozen different fuel:, which the motor truck rnpiiie can handle, not all with th satin- e;ise. to be sure, bul with a de-fcror de-fcror of efficiency which renders them (urorthy of consideration, always pro vided they win produce the necessary Icost of saving Next to gasoline undoubtedly the i ;ost readily usable truck fuel is kefo-J . ne. which In the final analysis is simply another form of the conventional conven-tional fuel. Kerosene bus. of course. Certain drawbacks, certain Incon-vcnlences Incon-vcnlences ss against gasoline. It is' hecessar) to install a priming device oi some tpe for starting purposes. With a vehicle intended primarily for purposes of pleasure this might be 8 ; serious drawback. but with motor inn k'. where cost i eduction must overrule everything except efficiency .of operation, the extra priming needed In starting ought not to stop the own- rj I'onsiderlng Ihe use of this heavier fuel. KER08ENE V IL1 Al'.I.I it has become the experience of I I many truck operators that drivers I not like to use the kerosene equipment equip-ment with the added trouble of prlni-iiik prlni-iiik The best way of meeting this condition Is to offer some sort of bonus bo-nus or Inducement to the drivers so ias to get them to give the heuvler fuel 0 fair chance. The saving effected by the burning of kerosene instead of (gasoline Is sufficiently great to Justify .Mich a course For Instance, a motor truck giving six miles to the gallon land showing a yearly mileage of 7200, With gasoline at 3D cents a gallon. Would have a yearly fuel bill of $36". whereas, if kerosene were used ut is dehts a gallon the yearly fuel hill would be Just $-'16- Multiply that bj the number of trucks In tho fleet und 1 hi sat ing is apparent Another tendency on the part of the drivers when the Mack is being run m kerosene Is to peimlt the engine to idle ..iiher ihun io take tho trouble of U'lmlitg with gasoline and starting nil r again. Naturally this practice USt be dlSCOlll id It the full value of tlx cheope tel is to bo obtained Ws may take It then, that kerosene makes a perfectly satisfactory fuel v hen a device has been installed v. hlch produces a proper degree of heat and pressure With these two problems solved kerosene Is actually U inore efficient fuel for motor trucks than gasoline. The proper carbureted kerosene will give more power, which ins that the actual saving In Its use ill be more than tho difference In! i !'n i between the heavier fuel audi I asollne M DIM IM. VI 1 . TOO. Meat to kerosene as un alternate fuel1 i the present time In this country o'obably comes what Is known as "dls-t "dls-t llate." The term distillate Is not particularly descriptive when taken in a national sense, because the product fiom the different oil fields differs so widely. On the Pacific coast distillate distil-late Is obtained, which Is scarcely In-fi In-fi rlor to gasoline. n the other hand, distillate from the Oklahoma and east- m fields cannot be handled efficiently efficient-ly by the ordinary truck motor, even With the application of heat But .More Is little question that the future a ay find a more general use for this i alternate truck fuel. Bensol, a product derived from coal, , has been much used in European , countries, where petroleum Is not so easy to get as It Is In this laud of the free- Benzol Is easily handled by the ordinary motor truck engines, but It lias an objectionable tendency to cause .smoking rapid fouling of the plugW 'and fuel exhaust odors. 11 gives a large amount of power per unit, but it' tfc not readily obtainable in this country. coun-try. However with the building up of! Certain Industries the dye Industry, I M.r Instance, which produces benzol OS I la by-product great quantities of thlsl alternate fuel will be uvallahle and I fin certain classes of truck operation 'it will serve admirably. CLEANING NICKEL ON CAB Nlcke-plated fittings on the auto-, auto-, mobile can he cleaned with regular silver polish and is applied as on silver.