Mr Davies has had the patent number on the plans authenticated, proving that they are genuine documents. The documents also described how the machine worked by turning petrol into a vapour before it entered the cylinder chamber, reducing the amount of fuel needed for combustion. They included a report of a test that Pogue had done on his lawnmower, which showed that he had managed to make the engine run for seven days on a quart (just under a litre) of petrol. As well as drawings of the carburetor, the envelope contained two pages of plans, three test reports and six pages of notes written by Pogue. Patrick Davies, 72, from St Austell, had owned the tool box for 40 years but only recently decided to clean it out. The controversial plans once caused panic among oil companies and rocked the Toronto Stock Exchange when tests carried out on the carburetor in the 1930s proved that it worked. Now a retired Cornish mechanic has enlisted the help of the University of Plymouth to rebuild Pogue’s revolutionary carburetor, known as the Winnipeg, from blueprints he found hidden beneath a sheet of plywood in the box. Ever since, suspicion has lingered that oil companies and car manufacturers colluded to bury Pogue’s invention. A carburetor that would allow a car to travel 200 miles on a gallon of fuel caused oil stocks to crash when it was announced by its Canadian inventor Charles Nelson Pogue in the 1930s.īut the carburetor was never produced and, mysteriously, Pogue went overnight from impoverished inventor to the manager of a successful factory making oil filters for the motor industry. The original blueprints for a device that could have revolutionized the motor car have been discovered in the secret compartment of a tool box. Oil Industry Suppressed Plans for 200-MPG Car Now one of them may come back to haunt the oil interests - a bit late, but nevertheless.Īn article published in Times Online on 19 April 2003 relates the story of how plans for the carburetor designed by Canadian inventor Charles Nelson Pogue in the 1930 were recently re-discovered by a Cornish mechanic in a secret compartment of a toolbox he had been given. Rather than a future technology, high mileage carburetors are inventions of the past, but unfortunately they did never make it to market. Original blueprints for 200 mpg carburetor found in England
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