Gee, when I was a kid, dad had an old DC Case tractor that we would start on gasoline and after she warmed up we would switch it over to kerosene for work in the field, then switch it back to gasoline before shutdown. This was an old crank tractor with a magneto.
Interesting........never heard of such a machine..............
I had a buddy who swore his dad did the same with their Buick station wagon on long trips. I don't remember if he switched to straight Kero (JP-5/Jet-A) or a 50-50% mix like JP-4.
Back in the 1980's, I helped friends in Kenya drop a 283 Chevy V-8 into a Land Cruiser Pickup (the L/C Straight-6 is a copy of the old Chevy 6, so the 283 bolted right up!) When I asked about it years later, they said they'd sold it to a guy who was running it on kerosene!
Was watching a British series, Wartime Farm. They had a tractor that started by using a blank 12 gauge shot shell and, I think, some burning straw.
Dad had an International TD 14a that did that also.
My dad told me that during the war (I or II?)They would wrap the fuel line around the exhaust manifold, start the car on gasoline to get it hot, and switch to kerosene. The hot kerosene enter the chambers would fire just fine.
Gasoline was on ration, but obviously kerosene was plentiful in those days.