OIL ECONOMY
BRITISH SHIPPING
LONDON C 6 INFERENCE
supplies m; case of
EMERGENCY
(deceived February 17. 9-30 ajn.)
LONDON, February 16. A conference has bt 'en opened by the Board of Trade to cs >nsider a move to save Britain's oil supi by reverting from oil to coal for t ertain classes of shipping. '■. It is pointed out that 41 per cent, of merchant ships depend on < oil including a large number of tramp ships. The entire combatant Navy uset « oil exclusively and the. Jlpyal Air \-Force and a great part of the Army 4. depend on oil for mobility/The question of supply in "case of emergency \&s therefore become of national inj portance. Any reduction in the demani i for oil would ease the burden of H ival de-. , fence, release warships proport ionately from convoy duty, and of court « benefit the coal trade. The opinion is expressed H'latall Itramp vessels and much other sb\ Ipping I might advantageously revert to ' coal.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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163OIL ECONOMY Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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