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Seeing Red

 
An update on hydrocarbon oil tribunal cases by James Bullock and Dave Anderson of McGrigors
 
It is said that it was Herr Rudolf Diesel's wife who convinced him to name his newly invented engine after himself. Rudolf's vision was that the Diesel engine would run on a range of bio-fuels of which peanut oil was his fuel of choice. Rudolf died in mysterious circumstances in 1913. He disappeared whilst on a ship bound for the UK. Conspiracy theorists claim that his death was the result of foul play by the German military who feared his invention being used by the Royal Navy. At the time of his disappearance Rudolf was unaware that the fuel for his engine was also destined to adopt his name without this time the intervention...

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