A Gas Producer Trial in Morocco.
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IN order to encourage the use of gas producers in the North African provinces, the French Direction Generale de l'Agriculture du Commerce at do la Colonization has decided to hold a series of trials for gas-driven tractors in Morocco. The exact date for the trials has not yet been fixed, but they will probably take Place during the month of April.
The price of petrol in Morocco has risen to such an extent that colonists are becoming keenly interested in the possibilities of the gas machine. The fuel that can be employed is the ligneous or brown coal found in the country.
This material is already used with sue-. cess in a number of producers. Agricultural tractors have made considerable headway in Morocco and nearly 1,000 of them are known to be in use at the present time in the French zone alone.
It might be expected that many of these machines would be of French manufacture in view of the proximity of the North African colonies to the mother country, and the number of really first-class tractors turned out in France. Such is not the case, however. The Americans got in early and secured practically a monopoly of the market.
The gazogene trials will be held on
the Roziers estates, between Casablanca and Mazag-an. They will last for three or four days, and will include : 1. A fuel-consumption test lasting an hour.
2. A road trial lasting an hour (in both of the above trials tractors will be running light).
3. A fuel-consumption trial with tractors pulling ploughs and ploughing to a minimum 'depth of 15 centimetres. The duration of this test will be fixed by the jury at the time of the trials.
4. Dynamometer tests of engine power, at normal r.p.m. and at maximum r.p.m.