OIL INDEPENDENCE
A BRITISH ENTERPRISE LONDON, 21st July. “The dawn of an important commercial enterprise, making Britain independent of foreign oil supplies,” was indicated by the Duke of Montrose, addressing representatives of coal, iron and steel trades. lie announced that a process for transforming millions of tons of slack coal, worth from 2s to 3s a ton, into valuable smokeless fuel apd oil was the result of (list-illation experiments at Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Leicestershire). The l output, he said, was 300 tons a day.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 July 1932, Page 8
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82OIL INDEPENDENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 July 1932, Page 8
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