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04 Aug 2019 19:39 #1
by Peter Kirk
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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The Middleton St George ORB - August 1944: The lack of bulk storage for UNLEADED petrol for MT meant that it was being stored in barrels at the time and clearly not ideal.
I hadn't really thought about unleaded being available then as it always seemed to be a recent "invention".
I hadn't really thought about unleaded being available then as it always seemed to be a recent "invention".
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04 Aug 2019 20:08 #2
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MT fuel was generally unleaded Pool Petrol, tetraethyl lead being prioritised for aviation fuels.
I remember struggling to get my '42 Bedford to run well on modern fuel, as the octane rating was too high for the poor girl. (95 octane is the regular stuff at the pumps now, vs the 68 octane pre-war "Commercial Grade" she was designed for)
The best way to knock the octane rating back down to the level she needed would have been to dilute it with paraffin, but that would have broken tax law...
I remember struggling to get my '42 Bedford to run well on modern fuel, as the octane rating was too high for the poor girl. (95 octane is the regular stuff at the pumps now, vs the 68 octane pre-war "Commercial Grade" she was designed for)
The best way to knock the octane rating back down to the level she needed would have been to dilute it with paraffin, but that would have broken tax law...
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05 Aug 2019 08:33 #3
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Back in the days of manned petrol stations and the star rating, my old motorbike took two star and although the octane was clearly marked on all pumps I cannot recall what two star was. Can you still get paraffin today as all the old filling stations have long gone, both pink and blue?
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05 Aug 2019 09:19 #4
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AFAIK petrol was unleaded until the early 30s.
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