Anti-knock agents, octane rating, additives and detailed engine design all went together. Change one… by the end of the war, the Germans couldn’t run captured Allied aircraft for long on German fuel … (View Post)

Seen them on the District line a bit. On one such, overheard them radioing ahead. Apparently they were watching up the train as people ducked out of the train as they saw them. The inspectors had coo… (View Post)

Shell gave detailed plans for how to destroy the plants in their former German division. After the failure of various such schemes to target specific bits of the economy, Harris and Co. avoided “pana… (View Post)

Read the Secret Horsepower Race - the definitive book on military engine development in the Western world in WWII. The gaps in knowledge about what the other side was doing with their fuel were enorm… (View Post)

The correct term is the Legally Challenged Community. (View Post)