Wartime Woodburners: Alternative Fuel Vehicles in World War II

In this age of high fuel prices and concern with continuing availability of oil, scientists are working on a number of approaches to alternate fuel sources. These concerns may provoke interest in how some people in gas—starved Europe dealt with such problems throughout the war years, 1939—1945. One of the most successful innovations, were the so—called “gas producer” vehicles that utilized the by—products of solid fuel combustion, employing such solids as coal, charcoal, turf, and wood to p...