PETROL FROM COAL
NEW PLANT IN OPERATION IN ENGLAND British Official Wireless Service RUGBY, October 16. Mr Ramsay MacDonald opened the plant established at a cost of £4,509,000 by Imperial Chemical Industries near Stockton-on-Tees for developing tho coal hydrogenation petrol process. The output of the plant is 45,000,000 gallons of petrol annually and the process ensures work alt the factory for some 2000 men, while the mining of the 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 commercial scale by the hydrogenation of bituminous coal.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 241, 18 October 1935, Page 5
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