FUEL IN WAR TIME
STORAGE IN BRITAIN. UNDERGROUND PETROL TANKS. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, June 12. Plans for the construction of petrol tanks, capable of holding hundreds of millions of gallons, are being drawnup by the Government as part of its war-defence scheme, says The People. Many of the tanks will be underground. in local’ties far removed from
industrial centres. The Government has decided that it cannot rely on Ihe production at home, from coal, of sufficient petrol to keep a mechanised Army, Air Force and the oil-burning ships of the Navy supplied. Increasing quantities of British petrol are In b.- produce,t. but Hie <io\ - ernment’s oil advisers have made it known that it will be essential to im-
port the bulk of our requirements from 1 * abroad. Several large fleets of tankers have 1 „ I been chartered for two years by the \ i Admiralty, in order to bring oil from ' America and the Middle East to build i Up this reserve.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 23 (Supplement)
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