NEW SHIPPING FUEL
OIL AND PULVERISED COAL SUCCESS IN P.BITATX LONDON". April 22. The Morning Post understands that the Wallsend Engineering Company and the Canard Shipping Line have successfully experimented with a new fuel, consisting of 60 per cent, crude oil and 40 per cent of pulverised coal, which, if is claimed, gives the same results as oil fuel at a lower cost.
The national importance to Britain of such a fuel would lie the contribution it would make to the conservation of Iter oil supplies in the event of emergency. Earlv this year, u conference was opened hy the'British Board of Trade to consider means of saving Britain's oil supply hy reverting from oil to coal for certain classes of shipping. ](. was pointed out then that 47 per cent of merchant ships depend on oil, including a large number of tramp ships. The entire combatant navy uses oil exclusively. The Air Force and a great part, of the army depend on oil for mobility.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19315, 4 May 1937, Page 3
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