Wallasey's Experimental Work on Fuels
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IN an address at Wallasey, Mr. H. B. 1 Holliday, gas engineer and manager to Wallasey Corporation, discussed the value of experimental work at the local gas works in providing home-produced fuel for motor vehicles. After describing how town gas had been utilized for transport vehicles in Wallasey since 1936, Mr. Holliday said that, in April, 1942, 50 vehicles, including four service buses, were at work.
Experiments had now been almost completed with the utilization of a combination of fuels produced at the Wallasey gas works, by means of Which increases in power and engine performance had been provided, with an appreciable reduction in costs per mile.
Four buses and a saloon car were now operating on a new method of combined liquid and gaseous I fuel, obtained from coal, and the increase in output in power and miles was being maintained without difficulty at half the cost of operating on petroleum.
The combination of these two products of gas undertakings could be arranged with special equipment, so that up to 100 gallons of fuel could be recovered from one ton of coal.