Abstract
THE appearance on a road in the London district of an omnibus with a trailer carrying a gas-producing apparatus to provide gas as fuel for its engine is a spectacular event which marks an important stage in mechanical propulsion in Great Britain. Although the method is by no means new, its adoption, even if only on an experimental scale, by a responsible authority on one of its public services, raises it from the category of the practically neglected to a position as one of the recognized possible alternatives to the use of liquid fuel. The trailer is not an essential part of the apparatus, and as soon as practical details have been settled by experience it will be possible to embody the gas producer in the vehicle so as to constitute a self-contained unit; but in the case of the existing pattern of omnibuses there is no surplus space in which such an apparatus can be placed. In the case of the private car or delivery, van, there is usually room for the required size of gas generator and little difficulty need be experienced in mounting it and its accessories quite conveniently.
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Gas Producers for Motor-Cars. Nature 144, 855–856 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144855a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144855a0