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GAS-DRIVEN BUS TRIAL IN GLASGOW

7th October 1938, Page 51
7th October 1938
Page 51
Page 51, 7th October 1938 — GAS-DRIVEN BUS TRIAL IN GLASGOW
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SCOTLANIT S only coal-gas hus, which has been operated. successfully on Inverness routes by the Highland Transport Co., Ltd., has been brought to Glasgow, where it will be seen this week. Members of the transport committee and representatives of the coal industry had a trial run on the bus to Drymen, on Friday last. The committee has agreed to experiment with the bus in carrying passengers to and from the Empire Exhibition.

It is claimed that the bus can be operated at a much lower cost than petrol. On the trip from Inverness to Glasgow, a distance of 180 miles, 200 lb. of anthracite were used. The coal costs the operator approximately 23 per ton, so that the fuel cost for the trip was about 5s. A 9 h.p. private car, on the same run, would require about six gallons of petrol—a fuel cost of Ps. The test of the bus, on Friday last, was a severe one. The Drymen road is a narrow, tortuous, hilly highway, and features noticed were the absence . of" knock " on hills and the astonishingly low speed at which .the bus can be driven in top gear. Also there were no fumes of any kind.

The bus, which is a 31-seater, has been in service daily, with Inverness as its centre, for almost nine months. It has covered approximately 20,000 miles and servicing has, we are told, been negligible. The bunker holds 5 cwt. of, fuel, which may he either anthracite, of low ash content, or smokeless fuel.

So satisfied is the Inverness company with the vehicle's performance that it is to purchase other buses of the same type. The producer and suction-gas plant, with which the Highland Transport company's bus is equipped, is of H.S.G. make.

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Locations: GLASGOW, Inverness

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