OIL TANKER
| INVISIBLE CARGO, by Leo Walmsley; Michael Joseph, English price, 21/-. "HOUGH by far the greater part of | our transport by land, sea and air, as | well as many other industries, are vitally | dependent upon oil and motor-spirit, | few New Zealanders know much about the tanker, an interesting and _ highly specialised type of ship, that is here | today and gone tomorrow after deliveringher invisible cargo. For those who would | know more about tankers-and in this | oil age all of us should know more-_ Leo Walmsley’s book is what is wanted. | He made a passage in the motor) tanker Dorcasia from Falmouth to | Curacao and returned to Swansea in the | turbo-electric tanker Theobaldus. In | between he saw the great oil refineries | on the island of Curacao, travelled in a small tanker to Maracaibo. and the head of the great lake of that name in Venezuela and visited the oil-fields and oil | prospectors by launch, car arid aeroplane. | Mr. Walmsley writes of al] the places he visited and what he saw in a bright, | entertaining style, and the whole process from oil-well ‘to delivery of the product | is described free from technicalities. His | story of life in a tanker at sea in fair weather and foul is of the first order. |
S. D.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 13
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213OIL TANKER New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 13
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