Re: Pintsch Gas???
Adrian Dunne (dunne@ozemail.com.au)
2 Aug 1997 06:12:20 GMT
Pintsch Gas was manufacured by heating heavy oil in a reaction vessel. The
gas was then stored in a water seal gas holder. A compressor was then used
to fill the fixed gas reservoirs on the gas lit vehicles. The VR also had a
Pintsch Gas wagon which was used to convey the gas to country carriage
depots; these depots had a fixed tank to store the gas. The works was at
the Dudley Street carriage sidings and there was a low pressure pipeline to
Flinders Street yard, which also had a gas holder and compressor. Pintsch
Gas was used up until the 1960's mainly with the PL type country cars
although the G suburban cars had dual lighting for use on the
non-electrified Werribee and Healesville lines.
Adrian Dunne
Peter Mason <Peter_Mason@nabaus.com.au> wrote in article
<5rh6bg$8gg@mo.nabaus.com.au>...
> In my reading of early VR passenger cars I have come across the use of
> Pintsch Gas for lighting.
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> What is Pintsch Gas, how was it manufactured and how was it stored in the
> cars - compressed, liquid??? There is also mention of waste Pintsch Gas -
> was this unused gas or contaminted somehow?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Peter
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