Original blueprints for 200 mpg carburetor found in England
"Oil Industry Suppressed Plans for 200-MPG Car"
"The original blueprints for a device that could have revolutionized the motor
car have been discovered in the secret compartment of a tool box. 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."
"But 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. Ever since, suspicion has lingered
that oil companies and car manufacturers colluded to bury Pogue’s invention."
"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. 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."
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