Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1915 — TO RUN MOTORS BY GAS COKE [ARTICLE]

TO RUN MOTORS BY GAS COKE

Inoffensive Fuel, According to Figures, Is Only One-Third Cost of Paraffin. In view of the high and increasing cost of motor spirit special Interest attaches to an experiment of the National Steam Car company, which has placed upon the streets of London a motor omnibus adapted to use ordinary gas coke as fuel, instead of paraffin, says the Times of that city. The omnibus is equipped with a new form • of multitubular boiler, and it is claimed that the running costs of the gas coke are one-third the cost of paraffin. The vehicle carries enough coke for a 60-mile journey and the consumption per mile is four pounds of coke and one-half gallon of water. The roar, flame and smell which aresometimes associated with steam motors are obviated in the coke motor. Prolonged tests were carried out by the chief commissioner of metropolitan police before the new type was accepted for service, and since it has been running careful observation has been kept. The omnibus chassis is constructed without a chimney, but a chassis with chimney has been designed for commercial cars, which work under less strihgent conditions than those of the omnibus service. The Dewar trophy was awarded to the company by the Royal Automobile club, which regarded the National coke motor trial as the most meritorious performance of the year.