OIL FROM COAL

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 18

OIL FROM COAL

SUCCESS OF ENGLISH ~ COMPANY PETROL USED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE (FBOM OtJB OWS COHBESPOK3EST.) LONDON, December 21 "Oil from coal"—the phrase heard frequently in England of recent years. The annual meeting of one of. the companies engaged in its produc- rtion, the Low Temperature tion, Ltd,, has therefore been watched,-, with interest. Colonel Whiston A.._ Bristow, the chairman, announced that-. 180,000 tons of several oils had been produced during the last year in con--J junction with a smokeless fuel "coal- . ite." The company increased its profit from £19,206 in 1935 to £96,868 m 1936. During the coming year it proposes to erect further works and tt begin at once a new oil and <*«»« plant five times the size of its preset. The various oils produced inducted ' Petrol for the Royal Air Force and me general motoring public; fuel o"_i« , the Admiralty and for industaal pitposes; Diesel oil, both for high-speea - ' transport motors and for heavy stationary engines; various oils wnu» are to-day being converted into penro by the process of hydrogenation; creosote oil for wood preservation; »=.. acids for a wide range of (_sir_ectams , and germicidal products, and for otner important uses such as mineral separa- . tion, and for the production of rnoura- . ings of the "bakelite" type; solvents and wash oils; chemicals recovered fro.ii the oils and liquors. "For the fourth year in succession the fighter squadrons of the R0y 31 ,"? Force have been flying on Coalene' (our refined petrol), a 3"*-"; results have been eminently sausßCtory," said Colonel Bristow. "For an the other products there exists an ever-ready market. Some of "»&» have become essential to our &**? life, some are vital to our defence forces, and some are in ever-increas-ing demand as the change-over irora coal to oil continues." . The company's chief source of in- . come is from "Coalite," a smoKeiess t fuel, and is being used in "waging* ceaseless campaign to preserve tne open fire," which is being rapidly ds» placed in England by gas fires, electric radiators, and central heatnv systems. ___________