Sounds to me like this might be a role for a bit of applied archaeology to
get these guys more aware of historical aspects of motor vehicles.  I'd be
pretty p....d off if I 'phoned in with info and got a clowning response
(although I am not familiar with the program).

There's some good info at
http://highforest.tripod.com/woodgas/woodgas.html
and photos at
http://highforest.tripod.com/charcoal/1944.html

Gordon Grimwade


Gordon Grimwade & Associates,
Heritage Consultants,
PO Box 9
Yungaburra,
Queensland, Australia 4872.
Phone 07 4095 3737
Fax 07 4095 2117
Mobile 0419 677 022
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Web site <gga.com.au>

A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat.
(Anon)



> From: Carl Barna <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:09:23 -0700
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: CHARCOAL BURNING ENGINES circa WWII
>
> By sheer coincidence,  NPR's "Car Talk" guys had a caller of German descent
> on last weekend who, during WW II, was fleeing the Russians in a car that
> ran on wood chips.  Every so often, they would stop at a lumber yard and
> fill up the car with wood chips to run the engine on.  Of course, Tom and
> Ray made much light of this, and I thought it was their usual clowning
> around.  They couldn't quite figure out how this would work.  Now I see
> that stanger things do happen.
>
> Carl Barna
> Regional Historian
> BLM Colorado State Office