From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Apr 25 2004 - 10:01:18 PDT
At 11:31 AM -0500 4/25/04, Stephen L Dussetschleger wrote:
>If you need a precedent of using veg oil in an MV, I have heard that
>during
>the Africa Campaign that Rommel used Veg oil in his tanks when he was
>unable
>to get re-supplied with diesel.
>
>***** Its "possible" he used it in the crankcases of the engines, but
>ALL the books I have show the German Armored vehicles ran on Petrol
>(gasoline), NOT diesel.
>Steve (who does NOT own a tank, but maybe soon enough.........)
The Maybach engines were all Petrol, as were all
of the other various Porche, Krupp, Daimler-Benz,
Bussag, etc engines.
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/html/germany/engines.html
Now some of the italian afvs may have had diesel engines.
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