HAD NO COAL BUT FOUND SOMETHING BETTER
(Speoial GQrresponclent.) LQNDON, April 9. Jteports from Flio Midlands indicale cliat fac.tories are recovering from tlie winter crisis .more quickly than had been .antioijpated. It is stated tliat a better attitude of .labour and an iniipravenient in tlie eoal situation are the eontributipg factors. It is also report.ed that iinotor ear manufacturers predict that in two years ' Time the British -market will be .noraial with ears for ,all who .ean aft'ord the liigher level of iprices. Several instances are coming to hand ■of .how lirms , carried on during the fuel c.risis. T.he , Rolls Royce faetory an Denby, for Listanc.e, put four 15,000 .horsqpower Nene jet engines in the rboilor rooni and .directed the high femperature exhaust- blast on the pipes. The .itesult was steam raisetl in less i than an hour., instead ,of the usual four hours with ,coal. Tiho N.enes are stay,ing in the boiler room sinee they onily use 25 jgallons of erude .oil hourly and do ,the work of io c~w.t. of eoal.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 April 1947, Page 5
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173HAD NO COAL BUT FOUND SOMETHING BETTER Chronicle (Levin), 11 April 1947, Page 5
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