Re: About gasoline, kerosene, and war rationing...

Posted by richard on June 04, 2004 at 16:19:13 from (195.93.34.11):

In Reply to: About gasoline, kerosene, and war rationing... posted by Matt on June 03, 2004 at 14:48:18:

I have a 1944 Farmall H that was is an origional wartime lease/lend tractor,with it came the log book that was issued to it by the govenment which lists all it's owners from new,the log book is also stamped by the 'Ministry of Fuel and Power' at 3 monthly intervals right up to the early 1950's when petrol came off ration,the tractor is also on rubbers,most that came over were on steels with 5th gear blanked off.The farmer that had it from new must have put forward a very good argument to the War Agricultural Dept to be allocated a U.S. built tractor on rubbers,most had to be content with a standard Fordson on spade lugs.I think farmers were allowed 2 gallons of petrol a week to start the tractors,but I don't think the supply of Vaporising Oil was limited.The nearest modern day equvilent to V.O. is Avtur but a good mix is 4 gallons of kerosene,1 gallon of petrol, with 2 pints of diesel added,don't forget that everything is bigger in America than it is here----exept for Gallons!

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