[Digestion] the chicken coupe

[Duncan Martin]

Rex, Alex and all

That sounds like the source of the widely-known version of the story - the 
same man too. Thanks for the reference.

I also dug out an earlier story  of a man (possibly not Mr Bates - reference 
lost!) with a large LP gasbag on the car roof - and no doubt dreadful 
aerodymanics. Perhaps the NE story refers to Mk II? Or a wholly separate 
project?

Anyway, if this 'conversation' relates to the AD entry in Wikipaedia, lets 
not base it on press stories - and especially not on the NE!

Duncan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zietsman, Rex" <Rex at Process.co.za>
To: <digestion at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:03 AM
Subject: [Digestion] the chicken coupe


> Gentlemen,
>
> I have a National Enquirer June 1980 article on the Harold Bate chicken
> coupe saga. Bate drove a 1953 Hillman "up to 75 miles per hour". He
> offered conversion kits for $33. There were follow up articles by Mother
> Earth News Issue #8 of March 1971 and Issue #10 of July 1971. He ran his
> digester at 60 psi and filled gas bottles with the gas.
>
> Rex
>
> snip
> Duncan,
>
> I remember seeing in a BBC news back in the 80?s of a
> guy that was running his car a Vauxhall 1950's vintage
> with biogas he was making with cow manure in his barn
> and then he was compressing it and carrying a portable
> CNG tank in the trunk. I remember that in the
> interview he was ask if he was not afraid of running
> out of manure. He replied: I don?t think so.
>
> Alejandro Bustamante
>
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