Gas bag omnibus in Edinburgh, WW1
An example of a coal gas powered vehicle in Edinburgh - in this case a bus which holds a voluminous rubber bag for the gas on its roof. Coal-gas powered vehicles were used during the First World War in place of petrol which had become increasingly scarce
Picture No
14098138
Media ID
45694310
Size
5146px x 3655px
(1.3MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 29 September, 1917
Date
1917
