3 thoughts on “Fuel Bladders sit atop taxis in wartime London”
Probably brown gas (vapor) and not gasoline (liquid) which would weigh about 390 lbs per 55 gallon drum, estimate there’s maybe 6 to 8+ drums on each roof = 1 to 2 tons.
Not likely on a ’30s wood frame sedan.
Yes, ‘coal gas’ was widely used well before and for quite some time after WW2, ‘gasometers’, looking much like huge water towers, were a very common sight in US and European cities. Technically, those are fuel bladders, just not for liquid fuel. As pointed out, that much liquid anything on the roof would have the underside of the car touching the pavement, not the tires.
If someone smoked around bags of gas vapors of that amount, the explosion would take out a couple of buildings.
Probably brown gas (vapor) and not gasoline (liquid) which would weigh about 390 lbs per 55 gallon drum, estimate there’s maybe 6 to 8+ drums on each roof = 1 to 2 tons.
Not likely on a ’30s wood frame sedan.
Yes, ‘coal gas’ was widely used well before and for quite some time after WW2, ‘gasometers’, looking much like huge water towers, were a very common sight in US and European cities. Technically, those are fuel bladders, just not for liquid fuel. As pointed out, that much liquid anything on the roof would have the underside of the car touching the pavement, not the tires.
If someone smoked around bags of gas vapors of that amount, the explosion would take out a couple of buildings.