ALTERNATIVE FUELS ESSENTIAL FOR FUTURE MINENT geologists forecast a petrol
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crisis in 25 years so that, apart from present attractions, it was intporta.nt that the industry should discover suitable substitutes, said Mr. D. A. Wrangham, M.Sc. (Loud.), Sen.Wh.Sc., A .M.I.Mech . E. (Salford Royal Technical Institute) in an address on " Alternative Fuels," given to the Institute of the Motor Trade at Manchester on Monday.
Mr. Wrangham touched upon the various fuels available and suggested that producer gas offered the greatest possibilities, so far as could be seen at present. Marsh gas was, in the future, likely to be available at various centres. As a result of Government encouragement, Germany, France and Italy possessed far greater numbers of producergas vehicles than Great Britain.
In the discussion that followed, Mr. George Mangoletsi referred to the potentialities of crude naphtha, washed creosote, and fuels in between.
Anyone who had ten vehicles could economically run on coal gas, commented Mr. H. B. Holliday (Wallasey), but the gas should be additional to petrol and not in place of it. Despite recent announcements to the contrary, the dual-fuel vehicle was to receive the ordinary basic petrol ration.
South Shields Raises Rates
SOUTH SHIELDS Municipal Council Ihas agreed to increase haulage rates by 10 per cent. Local hauliers asked a 15 per cent, increase, and the council, was requested by a subcommittee to agree to IA per cent. This suggestion was rejected and the 10 per cent.
increase awarded. , Traffic-light Saving Effort
THE city engineer of Plymouth has I reported that by operating traffic lights from only 7 a.m, until midnight, the corporation could save £110 per annum. The committee decided to continue all-night lighting until March 91, after which date the lights will be extinguished at midnight.
TRAINING BRITAIN'S YOUTH— DUNLOP'S CONTRIBUTION
A PRACTICAL contribution to Lord t Derby's plan for employing young men between school and military age is made by the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., which announces the offer of scholarships, providing free commercial training under expert supervision, with a maintenance grant at the rate of £52 a year. The qualifications for preliminary consideration are: age from 174 to 19 years at the commencement of the course; an educational standard equivalent to that of matriculation; sound health; British nationality.
The period of the instructional course will vary in accordance with the age of the individual and will be arranged so as to permit the young man to report for military duty at the appropriate time. Most of the training wilt be at Fort Dunlop, and, so far as practicable, at the Dunlop depot nearest the pupil's home; short periods at Dunlop branches in other cities will be necessary.