Solex sells lpg kit
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lOLEX (UK) LTD has entered the iutomotive liquefied petroleum las market with the Gasmaster ;ystern.
This is a conventional kit corn'rising pressure tank, solenoid, raporiser and mixer, and is ericed at £350.
Solex — formerly the Zenith arburetter Company Ltd and low part of the French Matra iroup — claims that the fitting of in lpg system is not a do-it-your:elf activity, and as such is only ivailable through the 30 Solex 'gents.
A pay-back time of under !0,000 miles on a commercial rehicle is claimed, as fleet eperators can reclaim the vat on he conversion cost.
This figure is based on lpg :osting around 65 per cent of the erice of petrol and a 15 per cent vorsening of the fuel consumpion when using gas.
Solex marketing manager )erek Gates said that the cornany is working on an electronic las injection control system with the aid of a Government grant, and this should be ready by 1983.
Shell predicts that 50,000 tonnes of lpg will be used in the United Kingdom for automotive purposes this year by 35,000 vehicles — double that of last year. All the Solex distributors involved in the Gasmaster conversion work are required to have at least one companytrained fitter available. To achieve this, Solex has built a training school in its research and development centre at Dunstable.