Britain Promotes Self-Sufficiency in. Petrol Supply
LONDON— Schemps aesigned to make the United Kingdom self-support-ing in the matter of petrol are before the British Government. . Sir Robert Horne in discussing the question in the House of Oommons said that he favoured a system of petrol manufacture dependent upon low temperature coal carbonization as already widely used in Germany, whgnce it has found its way to Japan, France and South Africa. This system he claimed to be so suitable for nse in the South Waies coal fields that there was talk of raising £1,000,000 by private enterprise'for its development there. Petrol is already being manufactured from coal in Britain to the extent of a total of about 5 per cent of the entire national demand for this essential, commodity. The systems already in use depend partly upon low temperature coal carbonization and partly upon what is known as hydrogenatiOn. These two processes, it has been pointed out by Mr. Alfred Edwards, M.P., are largely inter dependent, since a hydrogenation plant affords a market for lowtomperature by-products.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 18
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