Petrol From Coal
NEW PLANT IN OPERATION IN ENGLAND
(British Official Wireless.) Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 16,
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald opened the plant established at a cost of £4,500,000 by Imperial Chemical Industries near Stockton-on-Tees for developing the coal hydrogenation petrol process. The output of the plant is 45,000,000 gallons of petrol annually and the process ensures work at the factory for some 2000 men, while the mining of tlie coal required will account for the regular employment of 2000 men. The new plant is the first in the world to make petrol on a comercial scale by the hydrogenation of bituminous coal.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 246, 18 October 1935, Page 6
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