Bill Sykes' Newsletter
from America.
(May 2003)
An ex-Brit gives his views-(without fear
or favor)---of the American Scene
Vehicles of the future.
I recently saw a report on American TV, which
provided a description of a futuristic automobile, which
looked like military armoured fighting vehicle. So the
soccer moms, in order to keep up with the latest trends,
may have to discard their current day "Hummers",
(derived from the military Humvees), and go on to bigger,
heavier, armour plated, bullet proof vehicles of the future.
(What next: Machine guns mounted on the roof of the vehicles?).
What a strange world we live in.
Of course these vehicles will be very high gas guzzling
machines, and the soccer Moms will probably have to stop
every 500 miles or so to fill up their 100 gallon tanks
with gasoline, or perhaps better still tow along their
own personal gas tanker.
(A whimsical look at the automobile of the future, and
an obvious exaggeration on my part)!
A possible solution to the gasoline problem!
I read a recent article in a British newspaper,
(circulated on a weekly basis in America), which stated
that the original blue prints of a revolutionary carburettor
had been found in an old toolbox in Cornwall, England,
by a 72 year old man who had owned the toolbox for over
40 years.
The Canadian inventor, Charles Nelson Pogue, claimed
in a 1930 report that he had tested the carburettor on
a lawnmower, which ran for seven days on a litre of petrol.
In 1933 it was stated that he drove a Ford V8, 200 miles
on one gallon of fuel.
The report also stated that it appeared the carburettor
worked by turning petrol into vapor before it entered
the cylinder chambers, reducing the amount of fuel needed
for combustion.
The carburettor, named the Winnipeg, was never manufactured
commercially after 1936, and the plans apparently disappeared.
It was suggested that the oil companies and automobile
companies colluded to prevent the carburettor from being
manufactured commercially.
I obviously cannot verify the accuracy of the report,
or the claims of the inventor of the device to produce
the results stated.
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