"REDUCE OIL-ENGINE FUMES"
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A TTENTION to what was described as the menace of fumes caused by oil engines was drawn at the annual general meeting of the National Smoke Abatement Society in Glasgow last week. The delegates unanimously approved a resolution that local authorities and the police should enforce and, if necessary increase, their powers to minimize or suppress the fumes.
Dr. A. Parker, director, Fuel Research Station, said that whilst only about im. tons of oil fuel were being burned per year compared with 200m. tons of coal, the use of oil fuel would certainly increase in the next 10 years. In some instances the "smog from commercial vehicles using oil engines was a menace, although oil engines in good condition produced less polluted matter than ordinary petrol engines.