Hello!
It took me some searching but I found in my saved posts,
Go to the Archives and look up this thread
Period aviation fuels
posted on: 26 July 2002
It should answer your questions
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Was it essentially the same stuff the Germans used? Was the same fuel in aircraft also used in most road vehicles?
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No, Allied petrol was better than German in 1918 because in desperation the Germans had resorted to stretch out their petrol supply by mixing it with alcohol (see archived thread). I also read that Fokker DVII units that operated from captured Allied airfields had problems with Allied petrol because it made their engines run too hot.
I guess the Allies used higher octane fuel (by the standards of the day) for airplanes than what was used in ground vehicles, but ask a expert.