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Guy Gas Producer
In due course, with petrol becoming more universally available, some gas producer vehicles were converted to a more conventional form of combustion.
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In 1927 the Guy gas producer vehicle was put into production. This was made especially for those parts of the world remote from petrol supplies,
and orders were placed by Crown Agents for the Colonies, the Australian Government, and others. The fuel used was charcoal, and 18 lbs would do the work of
a gallon of petrol, showing a saving in fuel costs of 94 percent. The Company was confident, however, that the vehicle would run on almost anything
combustible, and one well-known municipality is understood to have operated a fleet of Guy trucks on sewer gas.
Perhaps the best-ever illustration of the gas producer vehicle’s versatility was the case of the prospective Eastern buyer who wrote and
enquired whether the outfit would run on camel dung. Back home in Wolverhampton, Guy Motors sent someone round to the local farm for some cow dung, which
was brought back and dried in a furnace. It was tried out and – whilst a certain amount of power was lost due to the quality of the “fuel” – it worked. The
order was obtained.
