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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1), 1940.

MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

COAL WILL KEEP OUR CARS

RUNNING FOR A

By A. C. Arend

While it is known that petrol shortagos have arisen. from a number of causes which nood not be entered into hore, the extent of development which is anticipated from cool carbonisation and hydrogenation is probably much greater than is generally appreciated.

This development can only partly be attributed to the exhaustion of existing oil fields, or mane- tary exchange difficulties between contracting countries, It became a matter of necessity with Germany and Japan during the war years, due to lack of potential sources of crude oil.

Although actual statistics for Japan are not forthcoming, it is known that approximately half the liquid fuel used by Ger- many hailed from coal and coni-tar. This may shed a different light on the subject. but from the American aspect most attention is devoted to ollfeld exhaustion, and because of which dwindling reserves, the coal process is expected to balance the difference.

In

tent, while the yield of water and With- carbon · diuxkle hereaBES. oui entering Into involved technicalities, the modified Ber- gius process as adopted by Far- benindustrie, and tho Fischer- Tropsch Germany, have both been utilised

process, also used in in the intest research experi- mental plante.

By both systems, the ylald of motor spirit approximates to 1 Lon per ༔ tons of coal treated, or tome 20 per cent. while the costs in both instances are

about the same. Actuni

first

LONG TIME

Prospective Exports

SUNBEA

A general view of a section of the recent motor show in London, taken before visitors wore admitted. The exhibition proved to be an Immense attraction to buyers from oversCAR and to the British public, who could wre the models of the latest Beltish cars, although owing to the export drive, most of the new cars will not bo, available to the motoring pub- Ila of Great Britain for a long time.

NEW NASH MODELS

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It is not that motor fuel is solely dependent on crude oil

but simply sources,

the yield from that it is cheaper than when recovered method mentioned can be as high from coal or oil shale, und that as 40 per cent of motor spirit the one system suffices prnetlent per lon, but in the process much ly without variation, The coal of it is consumed in providing liquefying treatment, Ou the fuel, power, steam, and auxiliary and thus reduces the figure other hand, will not function so well with one coal as with an- to 20 per cent. The products are other.

heavy oll, middle oil, and motor เท so far

as the highest uptrit. grades of fuel for aviation pur The heavy oil is used at the PONDS Are concerned, with start of the process, where it

Although the completely new ostane ratings of from 130 to mixed with from 40 to 50 pe range of Nash cars from Detrolt

cent

of pulverised coal, and 160, the matter of the original,

AVAS announced only the week source from which these hall from 0.1 to 1 per cent of a

before the most important of powdered catalyst. At a tem motor exhibitions, they were un- fades almost inte insignificance. Dow Practically everything deperis perature of 380 degrees F. this

fortuntaly mot mixture is subjected to a pros-London Show. on the processing, and it may yet. be that the future automobile zure of 200 atm. (3,000 lb. sq. i.) will be driven by a small quantity and in a contact period of about of high-grade fuel of equivalent two hours, the necessary conver rning, but which at present is sion has taken place.

TIM too costly.

process

Fischer differs in that the gases produo- ed from coal or coke, namely, carbon monoxide and hydrogen, represent the raw materials.

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Different Yiolds Some statistics may Hive more realistic criterion of how mofor spirit is recovered from different ramilications of coal treatment.

in

of Dr.

Butane, Propane.

One

Been

at

the

They arc very interesting technically, having Integral con- struction of frame and body in a single electrically welded unit. This frame, for the length of the passenger space, spreads in wid- th to beyond the level of the hub pintes. The body, which encloses all four wheels as low as the

After purification, this gas mix-wheel centres, has no detachable ture is passed over a solid catalyst spals or panels to aid in wheel From each ton of coal handled composed of thorin, cobalt, and changing. The front wheels thus

within the body. turn the coke and gas works, some diatomaceous earth, at pressures 2 gallons of refined motor ranging between and 50 benzole can be obtained from the atmospheres, and at from 350 This 10 gallons of far produced, i. degrees to 419 degrees F. from coal coked in by-produce system has aroused no little in-

terest

in the chemical world be- the valuable producia

ovens In the normal munner.

overhead-

Cars Made Rust-Proof

Birmingham, December 9.

The British motor indus.

try has produced the first completely rust-proot dar. New bainting and finletting processos éñaure that' ear bott dies will retain their gloss under the worst conditions.

These secrete ware reveal- e₫ in Birmingham. They are the car industry's answer to complaints from Dvaras buyers that British care tend to rust quickly in humid.

tropicas > and semi-tropical.

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being given. the new rust-proof treatment in a £0,000 plant weighing 170 tons.

It is the first plant of Hạn kinh kind in the world-Reuter, ».

This Nash range is called Airflyte and is offered in two models, the 2.83-iltra Type 600 and. the 3.85-11tre Ambas- zador, the former a alde-value and the lalter an From this source alone, Ameri- cause

valve six-cylinder. can statistics reveal, some 207 hulaue and propane are produced

Wheelbases. are respectively given at the front by placing million gallons could have been in quantity, besides what is nor-

9ft 4in and ift lim. available. This high-temperature mally known as petrol.

Engines most of the instruments on the carbonisation of coal, however, Apart from this, the fact that are basically-the-same as before, steering coloumn....

but now give improved economy The interior at both two-and gives a poor yield compared with the gaseous raw materials can be low-temperature curbonisation.

obtained from substances other as

a result of new carburettor. | four-door saloana is designed to Instead of heating the coal to than actual coal namely, food Coll springs are used all round, be converted into single or double

charenal, approximately 2,000 degrees F waste,

beds by lowering the seat and peat, and other with its. it is heated only to some 1,000 organic matter which has not The latest styling greatly in- accessory mattresses. The wind- degrees F. and the tar yield in- reached the stage of being re-creases body space in width but screen is of one-picca curved ases from 20 to 35 gallons garded as cont (although the later reduces the rear scat height glass and the front quarter win-

is uimittedly best) attracts in slightly;

of dows are also of curved glass. A the overall height terest from another aspect.. the car has been lowered from third body type-the Brougham From the aspect of the mo¦ 68-6916 to 02-03ln. Front Beat has two rear singlo seats slight- forist, these notes may help to elbow width is increased to 03in;ly facing each other. All doors dissipate somewhat erroneous rear 01. bellefs which are apparently held in some quarters, on the almost entire dependence crude oil for petrol production, Under tor of

normal conditions, the Latter

most easily tapped, almply processed, and gives the cheapest motor spirit, Je, in respect of ordinary low.

grade patrol.

creases

per tan.

'By subjecting this low-tem. perature tar to pressure crack. ing, similar to that applied to patroleum, up to 30 per cent of It can be converted to motor spirit, and together with the yield from the scrubbod furnace gasts, can bring the total to 12 gallons of petrol par GOAL

This proportion cannot satisfy the entire damand, and hence nitention has been bestowed on alternative means by improved processes Introduced since the was stopped.

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on

The further thir

The matter of grade, however, shows the subject in a different light, since nullable catalytic Hydrogenation Specialised methods of apply. nment can almost double the

rating Ing hydrogenation show the rating is raised, the greater bre greatest prospects, and which are the costs correspondingly increas at presunt the subject of exhtus-¦ed, whereby the initial, price of tive research.

the raw material, whether slight- Choice of the coal used imly higher or lower, is not of the portant, as the yield with what same importance, and which is are termed bright coals diminishes the main feature to be considered with a decrease in carbon con-with future developments.

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