HYDRAULIC COAL TRANSPORT
PUMPING FROM MINES SUGGESTED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 19. The British coal authorities are now experimenting with a plan to pump coal direct from the pit face to the surface through pipelines. Dr. W. Idris Jones, head of the nationalised industry’s research group, today told the Royal Society of Arts in London that this would reduce the present crippling costs of underground transport. Hydraulic transport had been tried in other industries, and successful research in France had already shown that such a method could be reliable and economic.
He suggested that the coal could even be pumped direct to power stations and other central points, passing en route through a cleaning screen. This would eliminate overland rail and road transport and alio greatly reduce fire and explosion risks and dust in the mines
Mr Harry Bridges Divorced.—Mrs Nancy Bridges, wife of the West Coast Longshoremen’s Union leader, Harry Bridges, was granted a divorce today on grounds of mental cruelty.—Nevada, January 20.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27564, 22 January 1955, Page 2
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