Newsreel clip (released Oct 13 1917) shows alternative energy (coal vapour) due to fuel shortages.

Описание: This newsreel clip, IWM IWM 655b, released #OTD Oct 13 1917, shows vehicles powered by alternative fuels (coal vapour as opposed to the hydrogen used in airships) instead of petrol in London. Shown are a motorcycle combination, a limousine, a bus and a Royal Navy 40 h.p. Admiralty charabanc all fitted with flexible bladders on their roofs.

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George L. Stampa cartoon for The Sketch in March 1918 shows a woman driver (a chauffeurette) clinging on to the car while the wife tells her husband "You'll have to get rid of the chauffeurette, Alfred - she's getting much too flighty."