Section 835 in Rules under the United Provinces Excise Act, 1910
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That was a position obtaining till about 1940, prior to which alcohol of strength higher than 95 per cent, was obtained in only laboratories or in small scale plant at a comparatively higher cost. The ideal of using alcohol as motor fuel received encouragement during World War II, when need for production, of a motor fuel from indigenous sources was deeply felt consequent on great shortage of petrol then experienced. Discovery was, however, soon made that alcohol when used as motor fuel did not work quite satisfactorily.
