Charcoal Fuel in the French Colonies.
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CARCOAL as a fuel for heavy vehicles is rapidly becoming popular in the French Colonies, particularly in stieli countries as French ludo-China, where charcoal is exceedingly cheep and motor spirit rather. expensive.
The photograph shows a gas-:propelled motor omnibus in French Morocco. This omnibus is mounted on at, American chassis fitted with the Autogaz producer. It has now been in regular service be
tween Casablanca and Marakeesh, a distance of 120 miles, for nearly a year', and the running costs of this particular bus are showing up very well against those for the other omnibuses run by the same company.
The -Societe Anonyme Autogaz, whose works are in Paris, are already delivering over 50 gas-producer plants a month, and this concern is only one out of some. 16 different firms in France making gas
producers suitable for motor vehicles.
A very large proportion of the orders 'conies from overseas, and this fact is worth noting by British manufacturers, as there are certain of. our own DominionS -in which motor spirit is expensive and difficult to obtain, and the charcoalusing gas-producer might be of very real' service. The present French machines are very easy to handle, and give practically no trouble at -all.