Hi Giorgio, sorry to say i have no dimensions on the Sperco, just by comparing from pic’s i’ll guess around 180mm outside diameter. I really want to find a Sperco gasifier or some drawings of one, anyway there is a car museum not long from where i live, they got a light-weight motorcycle with Sperco gasifier on display, im going to visit this summer and sneak a tape measure with me.
Bonus-picture, winner of Gothenburg’s first woodgas race 1940.
Henry Karlsson, Winner of class: charcoal, side-car motorcycles.
Harley Davidson with MB gasifier (Malte Blohm, engineer)
thanks göran for answer and nice historic fotos…we are also lovers of gasifying history, all fotos and history in this thread, please, so all is compact collected and easy to find!!
ciao giorgio
cody, thanks for the film also, i have it seen once, but not could find more…nice you have had it behind…if you have more material here is a good place for it
ciao giorgio
Very good material! Thank you Giorgio!
Edit: That very first link is a treasure trove, and many browsers will translate from French to English (or?) your preference.
Found some pictures
In 1987 the man on the pic’s wanted to attend a nostalgic motorcycle run on woodgas, he managed to borrow and get help from the old man that originally built the gasifier on the pic’s: master blacksmith Gottfrid S.
My dad had a gas filled balloon on one of his old cars , i don’t remember him ever telling stories of Kaboom to us kids but maybe people were a lot more carful throwing the ciggy buts out the windows .
PS we lived in the UK
Dave
