MOTOR FUEL FROM COAL
GERMAN CO.’S PROGRESS
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.,
BERLIN, November 26. Dr Brueckmann, director of the Mineral Oil Coal Utilisation Company, lecturing, said that the expenditure of twenty to twenty-two millions sterling would enable Germany within a decade to erect a coal refining plant to fill the annual demand of two and ahalf millions tofts of motor fuel by the Bergin process, which had already so progressed as to enable the- extraction of 12cwt of motor fuel from a tqn_of coal. ’ Plants for putting out 50,000 tons were workable at a net..profit of 50s a ton. • A BRITISH PURCHASE. LONDON, November 27. A E Broue, after six months’ investigations in Germany into the extraction of oil from coal, says that he has purchased the rights of the Lurgi system of extraction from shale, at a price enabling it to compete with well oil. < He adds that he is ordering a plant for delivery in March to operate deposits in Newnes, New South Wales.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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