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The Suppression of Fuel Savers and Alternate Energy Resources 473
All the evidence says Archie Blue's theories are correct. He says he's
proved they are. He came back to Christchurch from Guernsey just before
Christmas. There, helped by three retired millionaire friends, he had fitted
his device to a small van and driven it around, using only water for fuel.
The sceptics had a field day. Scientists admitted it was possible to get the
hydrogen from water and use it as a fuel but the cost and equipment needed
made it completely impractical. Newspaper reproters, as is their wont,
made Archie headlines.
Several, though, took his claims seriously. The motoring man for the
Daily Mail, Michael Kemp, made two trips to Guernsey to satisfy his
curiosity. He didn't get far the first time. But his second visit of three or
four days dispelled initial scepticism.
He reported on the paper's motoring page on August 19 last year that he
drove the van himself, in normal traffic, at speeds up to 35 miles an hour.
Until the air blower burned out, the engine was "lively and powerful,"
he wrote.
The Royal Automobile Club man on the island, one David Hooper has
taken a keen interest in all the proceeding and is convinced of its success.
Since his return Archie has worked steadily away in the cramped shed
which is his workshop to make a similar device to show New Zealand.
Amid boxes of tangled wires, innards of old radios, bits of television
sets, gramophones, Archie has soldered and welded. He's cut copper piping,
fitted it to a large jar, set it up with the aircleaner and pump on a base.
That little red pump will, say Archie, eventually blow hydrogen through
what was once a conventional carburettor [sic]—now cut down, float
removed, new controls affixed. Hydrogen is produced in the jar by electrolysis.
"It takes very little juice, about l!/2 amps," he says, stopping to
point out the virtues of his modern multi-function lathe.
It reminds him of the time he lived and worked in New York. In the late
fifties, he says, taking off his fur cap to scratch a smooth head, he went to
America with one of his inventions. He was working with a German who
offered to get him a job so he could stay on and work on the thing. ("It
never came to much.")
"It was a machine shop job, turning out one small aeroplane part only.
"The factory was going broke, but the bank kept it going until the contract
was over. Then they sold the lot, lathes and machinery went for next
to nothing."
With what money he had saved, he rented a general store on 8th street,
"just down the road from 14th Avenue." The rent was too high, though,
and he barely made a living. After three or four years, he came home.
Home to Christchurch, where Archie Blue was born nearly 74 years ago.
Educated at Sydenham Primary, later Christchurch Tech. After working