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The Suppression of Fuel Savers and Alternate Energy Resources 511
POGUE'S 200-MILES-A-GALLON CARBURETOR IS
BEING TRIED OUT THOROUGHLY AT TORONTO
Toronto, Dec. 5—Somewhere within 40 miles of Toronto, generally in a
north to northeast direction, engineers are now trying out the new carburetor,
invention of John [sic] Pogue, 38-year-old Winnipeg man, which
has become the main gossip of engineering and motor car circles throughout
the continent.
That was the message imparted to The Tribune by John E. Hammell,
millionaire mining official and prospector.
Mr. Hammell confirmed the report that a car using the new carburetor
traveled 200 miles on a gallon of gasoline.
Just where the old residence and plant at which the carburetor is being
tested is located will not be divulged. Gordon Lefebvre, of Toronto, formerly
automotive engineer with General Motors, is the personal representative
of Mr. Hammell in the final stages of perfecting the carburetor.
"I have not placed any big stake in this invention and won't until it is
perfected 100 percent," Mr. Hammell said. "After it is perfected it will
take time and it must be proved as an engineering principle."
To date the sum of $150,000 has been expended on the invention, states
Mr. Hammell. "I have hardly started to do anything yet—they've got to
show me."
W. J. Holmes, Winnipeg sportsman, has backed Pogue.
"But if it clicks," said Mr. Hammell, "there will be all the money
required to put it across. I have been approached by some of the biggest
oil and motor men on the continent already. They laughed at Pogue when
he needed help and now they can talk to me. I have signed up the entire
undertaking and have made agreements with both Pogue and Holmes.
"Certainly we have armed guards at the plant where the carburetor is
being perfected. Somebody broke into Pogue's shop at Winnipeg months
ago, but even if things were stolen now it wouldn't affect matters."
"The carburetor has been tried out on Pogue's own 1934 Ford 8-cylinder
car. We have driven the car and got surprising performance—running
over 200 miles on a gallon of gasoline. But that doesn't yet prove the
thing. It is being installed on one of my own cars of the same make as the
inventor's—then it will be tried on larger cars," declared Mr. Hammell.
As yet the invention is crudely made and entirely by hand. It is also
costly. It is a slow process in developing. The trying out of the instrument
on new cars will proceed under Mr. Hammell's engineers. Then other
engineers, a chemist and designers will be called on as part of the undertaking
with all the moneys required, states Mr. Hammell.
"I have no illusions in this matter," he remarked. "The principle must