Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-02
GAS SUBSTITUTE
SAID TO Be WONDER
Cheaper And Better Than Case
line As Auto Fuel, Declare
Army Officers
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT IT

Automobile men are grea ~ inter
ested in what may be the solution Of
the problem Of finding a substitute for
gasoline The discovery has Just been
announced by two army engineer on
GERS, with the permission OF he War
Department
They are Major Oliver B. Zimmer-
mann, and Capt E. c. weisgerber. of
the Gas and Oil Division. and both
men OF national reputation in this
line. Major Zimmerman before en-
tering the army the outbreak of the
war was consulting engineer of the
international Harvester Company.
Captain Weisgerber was consulting
gas. oil and chemical engineer in
Pittsburg, who for seven years has
been working on this problem.
Whas They Say
Major Zimmerman and Captain
Weisgerber made the following state
ments. which they say they stand
ready 10 demonstrate, regarding the
new fuel. called Liberty fuel" be-
cause 1t has been developed in con-
nee ion with the Liberty motor:
1t can be used by Automobiles in
place OF gasoline without any change
in the carbureter and without any
detrimental effects on the car.
1t can be used Gin other grades) for
airplanes and has shown results SUI
perior to gasoline
1t can be produced in quantity for
less than one-half the cost of gaso-
lene.
1t gives more mileage a gallon,
greater speed and has less heating eff
fec on the iubricating oil than gaso-
line
1t starts easier than gasoline.
| 1t has II per cent higher fuel econ
omy than export gasoline
Tested BY Bureau Of Standards
The Bureau of Standards reports
tina it has 3 per cent greater horse
power and 2 per cent greater effici-
ency than gasoline. II is almost scent
less and asteless and gives practical
ly no scent in Justification The pro-
ducts of combustion are much cooler
than gasoline. so that the amount of
oil used for fabrication is reduced as
web as the amount of water used in
he radiator for cooling.
Figures on tests conducted include,
for example, 305-mile ride on mo
torcycle with side car, first with gas
oline, and next with Liberty fuel With
gasoline the motorcycle made 321S
miles gallon and wen 76.4 miles a
quart of oil With Liberty fuel the
same motorcycle went SIS miles a gall
lon and 1907 miles a quart of oil
Other Tests Recorded
With a three-ton truck over a run
of 2S6 miles the tests showed with
gasoline six and one-third miles a
gallon, Cas- miles a quart of lubricat-
ing oil and eight and a half gallons
of water needed. With Liberty fuel
the record was 1914 miles a gallon of
gasoline. 1881 miles quart of oil and
two gallons of water needed
Scores of other ties are on record
in the files kept by Captain weisger-
ber The motorcycle used by him with
Liberty fuel has now covered $4,000
miles. and he says that the condition
of the cylinders in his engine are bet
ter today than the cylinders of other
motorcycles of the same type which
have gone only quarter the distance
and used gasoline.
The process of making Liberty fuel
is a secret. Captain weisgerber says,
but the process is at the disposal of
the government. 1t was on account
of the war that it was developed. The
original idea of the government was
to find substitute for gas to be used
by the public SO that the flow of gas
oline to the front would be grea ly in
creased.