On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:46:28 -0500, ceed
<ceed@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqr stuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:27:08 -0500, David Brown
> wrote:
>
>> So the engine could run on both gasoline and the "gases" the wood created
>> when burning? Or maybe it was steam pressure?
>
>I don't know the details, but I know it was not steam. The cars were
>modified to run on this fuel, and you had to start the burning of knott in
>good time before you planned on driving. The gas was filtered and cooled
>before it entered the engine working quite similar to evaporated gasoline.

There was a lot of those rigs running around Europe during WWII when
only Gov't Vees could buy gasoline.

Harry