gas-bag vehicles

Gday Muzza
Amazing i was thinking there wearnt any gas bags in ozzy i remember the gas producers on the back but never saw a gas-bags ( only some women ) aunties,
now i'm in trouble :)) thanks

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Muz, if your dad "cleaned the system out and buried the hot ash' then it was almost certainly a 'Gas Producer' he had, not a 'Gas Bag". Gas producers were fairly common in Oz during WW ll and they burned charcoal, or even wood, to produce a gas substitute for petrol. I saw a few. They were pretty messy things requiring a fair bit of maintenance to keep 'producing'. Usually mounted on the side or rear of cars, trucks, or even tractors. You certainly didn't jump in and drive off in the mornings!

I did see some 'Gas Bag' vehicles in Adelaide at that time too. I think they all were small vans (Morris?) belonging to the S.A. Gas Company, the producers and distributors of coal gas to consumers. Can't find a photo of them though.
But here is a photo of a gas producer.

God damn and double blast, i may have it wrong . But you have to remember , the old man passed 25 or so years ago and he was pretty old and i was very young. Come to think of it, i still am pretty young .

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Well Muz, I may not be "young". But Roz thinks I'm "pretty". lol