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New Tc of Gas nginc.
Industrial research is one of the main factors contributing to
the high position attained by British engineering products, and at
no time has activity in this direction been ore intense in Great
Britain than to -day. A British engineering development of great
Posibilities is foreshadowed in the recent announcement that two
types of engines have now been evolved, both of them of an efficiency
hitherto unknown in gas engine design. They are capable of oper-
ating well on both gas and oil. One of the engines is primarily
suitable for large stationary power lant, but it is also adaptable
for mobile uses. The other is designed particularly for mobile
uses, especially for motor lorries and for ships, One of the ad-
vantages of the invention is that existing types of petrol and
Diesel engines can be readily and cheaply converted to gas fuelling.
The perfecting of this type of engine has been done under the
United Kingdom Gas Corporation, the managing director of which has
stated that the new engine might well revolutionize the whole
economy of road transport, since all kinds of gas can be used, not
only coal gas, but sewage gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, or
natural gas.
A further advantage of the engine is that it is
practically identical in operation with the ordinary stationary
Diesel engines, which can be quickly converted at a small cost
without any locs of efficiency. Once, too, the new engine has
been introduced on the market on a reasonably large scale, there
will be no difficulty about the supply of gas from roadside filling
stations, where compressed gas can be stored in cylinders.
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