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Post by davidmcbeth3 » Tue. May. 17, 2016 4:00 pm

Lane's 1938 Citron Berline 11CV Gazogene, allowing it to run on coal gas. One of the two large containers on the front fenders is filled with coal and ignited, producing methane gas that was then condensed, filtered, and fed to a special carburetor. It took 30 minutes from cold ignition before you could drive off, and then the horsepower was diminished by about a third, and the driving range of a single coal stash was just 30 miles

from op's link ....

Putt putt putt ...

 
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Post by joeq » Tue. May. 17, 2016 4:08 pm

I think I'ld rather walk, or ride a bike. But then again, desperate measures require....

 
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Post by WNY » Tue. May. 17, 2016 6:09 pm

I;ve seen that car! I remember the big tanks on the fenders and yellow wheels.. Took me a while, but it's at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville when we were down that way a couple years ago. Cool Museum. A lot of interesting vehicles and motorcycles.

http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/citroen-berline-11-gazogene-1938

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Post by BunkerdCaddis » Tue. May. 17, 2016 8:17 pm

I'm thinking I'd much rather see coal used as a fuel for a means of conveyance rather than ethanol... ethanol has a better use... :verycool: :cheers:

 
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Post by Hambden Bob » Wed. May. 18, 2016 6:16 am

Pretty interesting,CK !

The Bulkmobile was created by gasoline being a rarity. Once again,lowly Coal came in handy....... :gee: :bang:

According to the article,approximately 65,000 units of various manufacture were brought into existence. Definitely not a one-off......

Remember,Coal is bad ! :flex:

 
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Post by coalnewbie » Sat. May. 21, 2016 5:42 pm

I would definitely prefer one of these to any electric car.

 
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Post by unhippy » Mon. May. 30, 2016 2:11 am

Whoever wrote that picture caption had no idea what they where writing about :mad: .....the gas producer on that car is a charcoal or coke producer.....not coal....there is very little anthracite coal in europe ( thats suitable to run a gasifier on without alot more gas filter filtering than that car has onboard) and the german's certainly where not allowing it to be used for in the occupied countrys.

However Bit coal coke after it has been used for town gas production or the Fischer Tropsh synthetic fuel process is pretty much perfect fuel for gasifiers like that one.....

wood can also be run in a gasifier but not one of that design type.....the swede's had what was probably the best wood gasifiers and necessary fuel network during the war....pretty much every farm sold gasifier wood fuel

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Post by coalnewbie » Mon. May. 30, 2016 6:15 am



I would still prefer a coal car.

 
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Post by samhill » Mon. May. 30, 2016 8:18 am

Why not throw out the converted gas engine & use the coal for steam to drive the car, seems like you would get a lot better distance & a great sounding horn as well!

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Mon. May. 30, 2016 10:05 am

Been done, Sam. Many of the earliest cars were steam powered - and many of those burned coal oil to heat the water.

http://www.stanleysteamers.com/

Buddy of mine's Father just bought a Stanley Steamer. I've yet to see it but have been on antique car tours with other Stanley and White steam cars. Restored steam farm equipment has become very popular at many rural antique vehicle meets/swaps.

The drawback that killed steam cars off is having to wait 30 minutes, or more, for the water to heat up enough to make steam from a cold start. In the days of hitching up a horse, or two, this didn't seem like such a long wait.

And if you want something more modern,....

http://www.steamspeedamerica.com/index.html

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Post by top top » Mon. May. 30, 2016 3:46 pm

I thought the Germans had perfected wood gas during the war, but I could be mistaken. I have read articles detailing Germany's use of wood gas in tanks for training purposes, buses to transport factory workers, and a VW car. The bus had the gas generator mounted on the rear bumper with tanks running full length on both sides. I imagine the generator ran all day to charge the tanks, then it was consumed at shift change. The VW car looked similar to the '70's VW "Thing" with a tall hood on front. The gas generator lived under that hood in what was formerly luggage space.

In the 70's the US federal gov't, not sure which dept, published plans for a simplified home built wood gas kit for vehicles with a carburetor in response to the OPEC embargo. Once installed you could seamlessly switch between pump gas and wood gas. Mother Earth News built one in a Chevy Pickup, said it got a lot of attention from police who thought it was a still.

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