Evening star., 1928-10-14
In the Motor World
BY q. ADAMS HOWARD.

coming December session. The
bill was reported to the Senate by
the committee on post Offices and
post roads in the closing month OF
the last session (Senate report
No. 999, Seventieth Congress-.
The record of the hearing on
the bill before the committee, held
toward the close of the last session
april 23), has just become avail
able. The bill is entitled "A bill to
provide for the construction of a
post road and military highway
, from point on or near the At
lantic Coast to point on or near
the Pacific Coast, and for other
purposes"
The record gives the text of the
bill and presents the testimony of
Warren Martin on behalf of Sem
| ator du Pont (Republican) of Del
aware, who introduced the bill,
and by Gutzon Borglum of San
Antonio, Tex.
Summarizing the purposes of
the measure, Mr. Martin, for Sen
atOr du Pont, said that title ! of
the bill sets forth all that the bill
would accomplish.
1T establishes" he said, "a ma
tlOnal survey commission, consist
ing OF five members of the Cab
met. whose departments would be
directly interested, and six indi-
vidualS of outstanding oualifica-
tlonS and experience appointed by
the President and confirmed by
the Senate.
The commission would be in
Structed to make a preliminary
examination and survey for a
central highway as direct as prac-
ticable from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Coast, and to study the
practicability of a highway along
the Pacific seaboard, along the
southern boundary, along the At
lantic Seaboard, a highway from a
point on the central highway as
near longitude 95 degrees as may
be practicable south to connect
With the southern boundary high
way. The commission is to report
!, to Congress-"
New Motor Fuels.
A story of interest to the motor
world comes from Great Britain.
Continued British efforts toward
developing alcohol as a motor fuel
have resulted in the DEVELOPMENT
OF a dry alcohol claimed by the
producing company to form with
gasoline an ideal anti-knock mix
ture, according to English trade
reports forwarded to the Depart
ment of Commerce by the Ameri-
can trade commissioner at Lon
don, Homer S. Fox.
A trial for motor vehicles run
on fuels other than gasoline and
benzol has been organized for next
Spring by the Royal Automobile
Club of Great Britain, the advices
state. There is no restriction on
the nationality of entrants. The
report follows in full text:
One of the principal British
companies interested in this mat
ter is the DiStillers Co., Ltd, the
largest group of alcohol distilling
companies in the United King
dom. It is now claimed that eX-
periments made by this company
or affiliated companies have
shown that alcohol is twice as eff
flclent as benzol in preventing
knocking in an internal combuS-
ton engine.
One Of the principal results in
this connection has been the pro-
duction of a dry alcohol, and it is
now stated that the DiStillers Co.
has put down a large unit at
their Liverpool factory for the
drying of alcohol by a French
process, and they find that the 7
per cent by weight of water con-
tanned in alcohol, as ordinarily
produced, can be removed at a
very small cost, so that over SO per
cent absolute alcohol can be OBJ
tanned, which can be mixed with
gasoline in any proportion.
A large unit, capable of handling
about 1000 gallons a day on the
same principle, has been sent to
the DiStillerS Co.'S Australian
branch and is expected to be in
1ull operation shortly. It is expect
ed TO use the output of this plant
mixed with gasoline in the propor-
ton of about IS to 20 per cent of
anhydrouS alcohol. It is claimed
that this mixture is one of the
most nearly ideal fuels yet de-
veloped as an anti-knock fuel, and
that it prevents, to a very large
extent, the deposit of carbon in
the cylinders and prevents damage
to the lubricating oil.