PETROL FROM COAL
SUCCESSES IN ROYAL AIR FORCE. PROGRESS OF HEAVY OIL ENGINES. (British Official Wireless), Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, March 20. In view of the Government s policy of assisting the production of petrol from coal interest is attached to a statement by Sir Philip Sassoon, Secretary for Air, in the House of Commons that nine Squadrons of the Royal Air Force were now flying entirely and with satisfactory results on spirit derived by low temperature carbonisation of British coal. Sir Philip also referred to the progress being made with British compression ignition engines and drew attention to the fact that the world record altitude for an aeroplane fitted with a heavy oil engine was established by a British machine last May with a height of 28,000 feet.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 4
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