A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1368, sig. 109-4/1122

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C The Imperial Protector in Prague, don 4.12,1941 Bölvion and lead Il., Svehlo-Ufer 12 Ver'chrgrinisteriun 111/2 T-I-1234/41. Tornr, 61 41 / 524 To the Lords Upper Land Councillors in Bohemia Lords Superior Land Councilors in Moravia - via the Moravian Service in Brno - sent to the Moravia office in Brno, subject: conversion of motor vehicles to the liquefied gas engine (fuel gas). In order to continue to save liquid fuel to an increased extent for our Wehrmacht, motor vehicles will now also be converted to liquefied petroleum gas. 1.) In the course of the introduction of propellant gas into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the following motor vehicles with internal combustion engines, which are permitted for use in traffic and may continue to be used, as far as they are not yet switched to or intended for propulsion with generator gas and high-pressure gas, must be switched to the propulsion with liquefied petroleum gas, the location of the motor vehicles must not be more than 1 km away from a liquefaction gas storage. (a) buses and coaches, (b) lorries with diesel engines, but only those which have been exempted from switching to generator gas engines.