OIL FROM COAL.
j , A FUTURE NECESSITY, JBY CABtK-.t'iiSSS ASSOCUWOJf— OOPTBIOflT.) (AUEi'S'LUX AND X.2. OABLH-iSBOCIATIOS.^ LONDON, March 9. Lecturing at the ltoyal United Service's Institute, Engineer-Captain Phillips said the consumptipn of petrol in Great Britain had increased 300 per cent, in five yours. If • no, discovery of oil or a substitute were made within the Empire our position in peace time would soon be unsatisfactory, and in war time precarious. The solution seemed to be tlie liquefaction # or low temperature carbonisation of coal. If that process could ,be successfully undertaken it would be a blow at the Empire's security for anyohe'"to'burn 'coal in a fireplace.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18947, 11 March 1927, Page 13
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