I tell the petrol man to fill it up and I insist on paying for the petrol.
Home in the petrol wagon, which by this time had become manageable again.
Presently came a friend whom it was good to see again and we fix up a bit of a party and get into Dudley's petrol wagon, and as we bowl along we sing songs, ancient songs of the music-halls.
Then he grasped the handle and puled, the section of bookshelves swung back like a door, and he found himself face to face with a great stack of petrol cans.
The few petrol cans that Desmond had seen openly displayed in the shed without seemed to show that Bellward received a small quantity of spirit from the Petrol Board to take him to and from the railway.
The old fellow stood there and just talked to the audience of a fine sporting class of men that petrol has driven from the streets, without exaggerated humor or pathos.
A few petrol cans, some full, some empty, stood against the wall.
Maybe it will work if you hustle right on the petrol trail.
The only thing that is of serious outlook," declared Billy the next morning, "is just how long the petrol is going to hold out.
The pilots had made up their minds to keep up a high rate of speed, and take the chances of running into or near a populous city, where by some hook or crook the waning supply of petrol could be replenished.
We can easily do three hundred miles with our petrol supply," assured Billy, who had just completed inspection of the tanks in both machines.
The petrol question was not settled by this hilarity, and as to the destination of the war-planes, only time could settle that.
Let the petrol question go on the table for an hour or two, anyway," pleaded Henri, entranced by the appeal of this earthly paradise.
I shall surprise you, I reckon," he said, in an American accent as thick as petrol fumes.
There must be something delightful in speeding through the country feeling that steel and petrol do not suffer any of the strain that comes on horses.
Without another word, Bob pulled the lever and sailed off up the road, leaving a trail of petrol vapour behind him.
There was a legend that the petrol engine frightened the fish away.
She was a natty and picturesque trawler, with a petrol engine that was the admiration of the village installed in her bowels.
And I suppose the petrol pipe was choked with emotion.
On examination Pomfret proved to be practically unhurt, and I was able to get some petrolin the village; but naturally I didn't dare to drive him without seeing to the brakes.
A mere red-hot pipe in an engine would not cause petrol fire.
Fire in such cases is caused by petrol or petrol vapor being set alight by a spark from the magneto, which because the air-screw is still revolving continues to generate sparks internally even when switched off.
It contains water ballast and petrol tanks, bomb storage and crew accommodation, and the various control wires, petrol pipes, and electric leads are carried along the lower part.
Transatlantic crossing, extra petrol tanks were fitted in the hull and a new type of outer cover was fitted with a view to her making the Atlantic crossing.
Lieutenants Otley and Dunning, flying in the Balkans, engaged a couple of enemy machines and drove them off, but not until their petrol tank had got a hole in it and Dunning was dangerously wounded in the leg.
Penaud conceived this machine as driven by two propellers; alternatively these could be driven by petrol or steam-fed motor, and the centre of gravity of the machine while in flight was in the front fifth of the wings.
An easy journey was experienced until Newfoundland was reached, but then storms and electrical disturbances rendered it necessary to alter the course, in consequence of which petrol began to run short.
Throughout this internal corridor runs a bridge girder, from which the petrol and water ballast tanks are supported.
Yet that again was a thing of mathematical calculation and petrol storage, allied to a certain stark courage which may be found even in landsmen.
The first designers of internal combustion engines, knowing nothing of the petrol of these days, constructed their examples with a view to using gas as fuel.
With this 200 horse-power Anzani, a petrol consumption of as low as 0.
Petrol is sprayed into the crank case by a small geared pump and the mixture is taken from there to the piston valves by radial pipes.
Instead of the operations being directed against a secret petrol depot, the boats found themselves up against a powerful and well-organized system of shore batteries and a strong force of troops to oppose their landing.
But what the attackers did not know was the existence of a novel form of fougasse--the row of petrol tins.
The torpedo was fired by the ignition of a small charge of petrol gas, and could be aimed with considerable accuracy.
My word, that petrol flare shook 'em up a bit; but we needn't have used the lot.
Already one of the bright-red petrol cans had been holed by a couple of accurately placed shots, and the highly volatile fluid was escaping and soaking into the hot sand.
It was the Greek, who had been detained on board pending his trial for treachery in connection with the thwarted attempt upon the non-existent petrol depot of Akhissareli.
The petrol depot was supposed to be on the port-hand side, on gently shelving ground hidden from seaward by a line of low cliffs.
We've found what I believe to be a secret petrol store, sir," reported Webb to his skipper.
The "job" to which the Lieutenant referred was the destruction of a hitherto carefully concealed petrol depot on the shores of Asia Minor, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Smyrna.
Meanwhile Osborne, assisted by two volunteers, boldly left the shelter of the trenches and began to dig up the scorched and blistered petrol tins.
He had sunk to a considerable depth, and just before he regained the surface he had been compelled to swallow a mouthful--not of honest sea water, but of some vile liquid of which petrol and oil formed component parts.
At the critical time a few bullets could be shot at one of the tins, and, when the petrol runs out, it could be fired by a signal-bullet from the pistol.
The petrol supply is regulated by pressure, and, the pressure having gone when German bullets opened the tank, the engine gets less and less petrol, and finally ceases work.
Petrol was dripping from the spot where the tank had been perforated.
It swept away, but not before two of the German observer's bullets had plugged our petrol tank from underneath.
Next, thinking that the engine might have been slightly choked, he cut off the petrol supply for a moment and put down the nose of the machine.
Soon one gives in and turns back, the pilot being unable to maintain pressure for his petrol supply.
His petrol tank bursts into flames, and the machine dives steeply, a streamer of flame running away behind it.
With these replaced, and the supplies ofpetrol and oil replenished, we flew south during the afternoon to the river-basin of war.
The engine stopped, but picked up when the petrol was once more allowed to run.
The observer digs into the petrol tank as they touch earth, and then runs round the machine.
In a second thepetrol is ablaze and the fuselage and wings are burning merrily.
We traced the adventures of that bullet; it had grazed a strut, cut right through the petrol union, and expended itself on the chocolate tin.
Archie wounded a pilot from our aerodrome in the head and leg, and an opening the size of a duck's egg was ripped into the petrol tank facing him.
Another unpleasant thought is that though he himself escape unhurt, an incendiary bullet may set his petrol tank ablaze, or some stray shots may cut his most vital control wires.
Suddenly a streak of flame came from his petrol tank, and the next second he was rushing earthwards, with two streamers of smoke trailing behind.
The petrol tank of the second machine to arrive among the Huns was plugged by a bullet, and the pilot was forced to land.
I let the petrol run out and fired it to put the machine out of use.
Unlike the aviator who threw himself into the air on a bundle of steel rods and rubber, a propeller and a petrol engine, the phlegmatic German took no risks with a balloon.
When war was declared one of the first steps taken by the military authorities was to commandeer every motor-car, every motor-cycle and every litre of petrol in the kingdom.
On one occasion he commandeered a motorcycle standing outside a cafe and rode it until the petrol ran out, whereupon he abandoned it by the roadside and pushed on afoot.
Jerrold seemed in quite good spirits over the result of an inquiry he had been making regarding a secret store of petrol established by the enemy's emissaries somewhere on the Sussex coast," Mr Trustram explained.
He had, he told me, disclosed it to the Intelligence Department, and they were taking secret measures to watch a certain barn wherein the petrol was concealed, and to arrest those implicated in the affair.
Here we were joined by two more planes but not without some trouble and slight delay because of a broken petrol pipe which was subsequently repaired in the air.
During the last few minutes of the fight, our engine had been popping altogether too frequently, and soon the engineer came forward to tell us that the fourth engine petrol pipe had broken.
All the same--a Russian newspaper, a Russian secretary at the Red House, Russian petrol cans, a Russian steamer.
Their shape suggested paraffin or petrol rather than any material useful to fishers; yet they were not the common petrol cans; they were larger and wider-necked than those that held the ordinary motor-spirit.
The stranger, a big man, came up again alone, bent under a bulky package, to which a string of petrol tins was attached.
Yet we find a Russian newspaper in the cellar, and Russian petrol tins in Rush's hut.
Anyhow, he told me rather bluntly that I couldn't have any petrol till to-morrow, and I came away.
I went into the shop, and asked the sheepish young fellow there for one of the cans of petrol I saw against the wall.
Pratt caught up a petrol can and his banjo; Warrender secured his razor-case and sponge-bag.
Whether by accident or design the only remaining petrol tank had exploded, and the flames instantly igniting the huge volume of hydrogen had in the twinkling of an eye completed the work of destruction.
Although the petrol engines, used for running on the surface, were in motion, the clutches of both shafts were disconnected and the exhaust completely muffled.
As soon as the petrol blazing on the water had burned itself out, the boats returned to find that Drake and his companions were alive, though scorched by the terrific heat.
Her motors went crashing through the flaming petrol in the double-bottoms as the vessel tilted and slipped stern foremost beneath the flaming surface of the sea.
Shortly after midday the aero-hydroplanes were recalled in order to recharge accumulators and replenish petrol tanks, and also to give the wearied though enthusiastic men a well-earned rest.
The petrol caught fire, and, leaping in a cascade of flame, ignited the main tanks in the double bottom.
Fresh water was being supplied to the tanks by one set of hoses, while another pipe was in use filling up the double bottom petrol tanks with liquid fuel.
One difficulty was overcome when we bartered cigarettes for a petrol can from some railside Arabs.
Alongside the installation an Arab sat on a cushion on an upturned petrol can, waiting for customers.
My duty was to drive on the Continent, and for what he was to pay me I was to serve him loyally, and see that his tyre and petrol bills were not too exorbitant.
If, for instance, you endeavoured to make a 1/10 scale model, your model petrolmotor would be compelled to have eight cylinders, each 0.
So far as the writer is aware no success has as yet attended the use of a single-cylinder petrol motor on a model aeroplane.
The number of petrol motor-driven model aeroplanes that have actually flown is very small.
In the case ofpetrol or similar driven models the position of the propeller can be safely copied from actual well-recognised and successful full-sized machines.
With elastic or spring driven models the problem is more complicated than for models driven by petrol or some vaporized form of liquid fuel; and less reliable information is to hand.
