Bradford Early in the Field with a Gas-adapted Lorry
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WE learn that Bradford Gas Department has successfully adapted one of its vehicles, a Morris-Commercial 1-tonner, for propulsion by coal gas as a substitute lor petrol, the type being reminiscent of that which was widdly employed during the 1914-1918 war. The gas is carried in a fabric container of box-like shape, 12 ft. by 6 ft. by 6 ft., which will hold 432 cubic ft. of gas, the equivalent ef If gallons of petrol. AS the vehicle is of the flat open type, the gas-container is carried on a raised platform which forms a kind of canopy over the body and extends over the cab.
From the container, the gas passes through a pipe into the cab, where there is a cock for turning the gas on or off, and thence the fuel is piped, via a regulator and un injector, to the carburetter. • It is stated that the cost of engine adaptation is low and that the gas container is inexpensive. With reference to tite eight filling stations which the Bradford Gas Department proposes to establish for the supply of gas vehicles, Mr. G. C. Currier, the Bradford Gas Engineer, stated the other day that the price of the fuel had not yet been fixed, but it would not be higher than the cost of petrol, and might be a little less.