Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — Motor Fuel Adds Ten Miles an Hour to Airplane Speed [ARTICLE]

Motor Fuel Adds Ten Miles an Hour to Airplane Speed

Development too late for use in the war of a motor fuel which., miles an hour to the speed of airplanes and has possibilities for use in automobile racing was announced by the bureau of mines. The liquid, a combination of benzol and cyclohexane, so while of military value, it is not regarded as practical for commercial purposes at present. Another combination developed by the bureau, consisting of benzol and gasoline, has been found to be more powerful than gasoline alone and is expected to prove of value in industry. The comparative scarcity of benzol, however, makes its production to supplant gasoline on a large scale improbable in the immediate future.