OIL STORAGE.
CONDITIONS IN AMERICA. After observing the methods of oil storage in America, Mr F. E. Jones, managing-director of W. H. Simms and Co., Ltd., who has just returned to Christchurch after a trip to the United States, considers the objections to oil storage tanks in Christchurch are absurd. "In America I have seen clusters or them,- often numbering up to fifty, M he told a reporter last evening, "and one sees them wherever there is a town. All the tanks are above gronnd on stands, not underground, as it is considered that the fire risk is slight when the tanks are so placed. -The tanks have a fire-fighting plant at hand, which pumps foamite into the burning oil. This foamite is an acid, an<» an alkali mixture, which, when united, effervesces aud foams. While I was over in the States I saw an oil-tanker afire in San Pedro harbour, and the flames were extinguished in half an hour with foamite."
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 10
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162OIL STORAGE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 10
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