[HAM] Question for any Aussie member

[Geoff Williamson]

Quite right Malte, many cars were run on wood gas (char gas, charcoal  
gas etc. whatever you want to call it) including in Australia.  Kon  
simply isn't aware of such things and perhaps his family were not  
actually living here in Australia at the time.  It was relatively  
common as you say in Europe and out here in Australia due to  
restricted supply of gasoline, aka petrol.

Geoff

On 09/04/2008, at 5:54 PM, Malte Rogacki wrote:

>> Hi Bill.
>> I live in Melbourne, Australia and I am not aware of any charcoal
>> powered cars from the WW2 era or from any other era.
>
> Perhaps Bill has mistaken Austria for Australia?
>
> During WWII practically all private cars in Germany and Austria were
> running on wood gas because gasoline was only available to the army.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holzgas
>
> I don't know if this was also in use in Australia; as I said in  
> Germany and
> Austria it was the rule from around 1941. Most of those cars  
> disappeared in
> the late 40's.
>
>