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Producer Gas For Motor Vehicles 2nd Edition

by John D. Cash and Martin g. Cash
Producer Gas For Motor Vehicles 2nd Edition

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ISBN13: 9781559181877
ISBN10: 1559181877
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Here you get the secrets of powering an automobile on coal, coke, charcoal, and even wood using successful techniques developed in Australia and Europe.

The preface reads: "The dangers which in 1940 threatened to cut off our petrol supplies, and thereby revived public interest in the gas producer have now passed the threatening stage and are in fact in operation. Lack of shipping space; lack of credits, the necessity of conserving our international balances, the entry of Japan into the war against us all combine to make the conservation of our petrol supplies a stern necessity.
Gas producers are now to be seen everywhere supplying in the aggregate millions of miles of travel-service which would not otherwise be supplied. It may well be that the gas producer's greatest service to Australia is only just beginning..."

These days gasoline supplies could be greatly reduced at any moment, not by a war with Japan, but by mid-Easterner's not being able to get along with themselves. We're far more dependent on Arab oil than most people realize. It could be the early 1970's all over again with gasoline shortages.

Build an experimental gas generator and bolt it to an old car. Other people build race cars that move fast. When the oil shortage comes, your charcoal powered auto might be the only auto moving at all!

Nuts and bolts how-to. Details you're not going to find anywhere else. A lot of rare information for the money. Get a book and shelve it, even if you don't build a generator. You'll have it when you want it.

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Graeme Quick , August 21, 2008
I was around during WWII and saw gas producers working - on my father's car for example. They were certainly helpful before and during the war effort in Australia. One operator here successfully ran a producer gas generator on wheat, although it did spring a leak at one stage and left a birdseed trail across the streets of Melbourne. He got 80 miles to the bushel incidentally ! Our situation at the time of wartime fuel rationing was nothing compared with Germany however - German ingenuity came out with many variants of gas producers on vehicles and tractors. However once the war was over and rationing lifted, people promptly stopped using gas producers. - They were clumsy, smelly and dirty things to operate. The main problem was the bulky fuel - ther's nothing so convenient as a jerry can of petroleum-based fuel !! Readers can learn a lot more about this topic in my book "Australian Tractors" (Third Edition, Rosenberg, 2006. 192 pages, softbound, colour. )

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ISBN:
9781559181877
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Trade Paperback
Publisher:
YOUR OLD TIME BOOKSTORE
Edition:
2ED
Pages:
194
Copyright Year:
1942
UPC Code:
2801559181879
Author:
John D Cash
Subject:
Automobiles

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