>Chuck Chriss schrieb:
>> I thought that the list might be interested in this page which I just
found
>> about a coal
>> powered 6x6 built for the US Army in the late 1940s:
>In Germany nearly all civilian trucks were coal or wood powered during
>WW2. Petrol (gas) and diesel fuel was only available for the Wehrmacht
>or some very important people.
It was very common in England too at the time; busses and trucks had a
gas producer fitted to the outside; taxis and cars often carried a
deflatable gas storage cell on the roof like a small zeppelin, this was
re-charged from the domestic mains gas supply.
Richard
(Southampton UK)
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