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| Subject: | Re: Panther with stadtgas? |  |
| Date: | Aug 17, 2006 |
| From: | Chris Oldfield | |
Hi Rick,
"Stadtgas" literally translated means "town gas", so this means that to conserve precious fuel for the front line, the Germans converted a number of training vehicles to run on various other fuels like Holzgas (wood-burning) & ordinary domestic gas (produced at that time by burning coal or coke). This was then carried in externally-mounted fuel tanks on the vehicle & the engine converted to run on the new fuel. Vehicles so converted were usually older or captured ones used for driver training.
I've seen photos of Char B tanks used by the Germans mounting these fuel tanks, but never a Panther. But, as with everything to do with German WW2 AFVs, you should never say never! I assume Dragon has done their research on this one, & produced evidence of Panthers with this fuel system.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Chris. |
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 | Panther with stadtgas? - Rick Wolfe - Aug 17, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - Chris Oldfield - Aug 17, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - Bruce Clark - Aug 18, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - Paul A. Owen - Aug 18, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - Rick - Aug 18, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - Richard - Aug 20, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - michael kenny - Aug 21, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - Rick - Aug 21, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - Chris Oldfield - Aug 21, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Why wait? - Paul A. Owen - Aug 21, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Why wait? - Chris Oldfield - Aug 22, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Panther with stadtgas? - Chris Oldfield - Aug 24, 2006 |
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