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THE

MOTOR SPIRIT FROM

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

COAL

Experiments in Great Britain with the

Hydrogenation Method.

Bources,

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As a result there is a risc-and a very substantial one-in crude- oll prices, which must, of necessity, bring about an increase in refined- oil prices. The ocean oil freight market is also showing signs of levelling itself. And we have the

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very recent departure from the Gold Standard, which makes motor spirit purchases from the United States doarer. And here comes the direct suggestion that motor- "The British motorist of to-day, ton would be selected In preferenco

which spirit prices in this country must hydrogenation,

shortly advance; there is no other By n Motoring Correspondent... purchasing his supplies either from 10 direct

spirit 'In five years' time I expect to the national facilities supplied by method would yield several times alternative. To-day motor the large importing and distribut-the above quantity of crude oil per can be landed at Thames Haven see private care using heavy oil

the ton of coal.

storages for about 3d. per gallon; fuel in place of petrol," said M. from or

wellknown ing

add to this the Ed. per gallon excise Adolph companies,

Sauror, the may

Granted only a few special coals tax, and the commonsense reader Swiss moter-car engineer, to me numerous other enterprises, not be particularly interested in are readily suitable for use by the

can figure for himself about how yesterday. country is hydrogenation method, there would long this state of things can last. The occasion was Л lunchron the fact that this

be so difficulty in obtaining the Cost of Production of Conl Petrol, Comercial Vehicles, Ltd.,

by the Armstrong-Saurer seriously considering the pros et runs re the substitution-ut some in sufficient quantities. in

But let us get back to the ques-

British which it was announced that this future date of home supplies of sidering therefore whether it is

worth while to make large saerifices tion of British ol from

Within the paat weeks associated company of the Arm- motor spirit from home

group were Nevertheless, the subject is engag-to establish a home of industry on conl.

n very large scale the time element hundreds of colllery owners have strong Whitworth for some ing as it has engaged years past the serious attention of must not be ignored. With every been privileged to witness the making commercial motor trans- encouragement, and by the most extraction processes carried out at port vehicles equipped with heavy

robil. uning compression-

1-ignition those who can see immense

were built sibilities of the utilisation of our strenuous efforts, such an industry a British colllery. The petrol

n first-class engines which

Scotswood, Newcastle-on-Tyne. conl resources with regard to the must naturally take many years to duced is admittedly

establish. Moreover, the capital one, and, by the use of catalysta,

No longer, stated the Chairman, demand for liquid products, ... st

product

Major-General G. P Dawnay, are motor spirit and other petroleum requirements would be on a colossal the particular variety

known scale, and it is difficult to see how can be varied at will. Perhaps the

Armstrong Whitworth makers of requirements. It in wi

Information Interesting be provided, except most

armaments.

To-day WC Are that to-day this country is depend these could

ntaking ploughshares spirit gradually over a very considerable imparted to the writer was that a ent upon imported motor

Bearly period of yours. Incidentally, the high-grade petrol can be produced

wwords: and in road-transport suppiles to the extent

squire fact that Great Britain spends from coal at something like a vehicles of the character described ninety per cent. of its

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something like £40,000,000 annually of Td. to 8. per gallon, after pro we see a chance of enormous deve- the suggestione

oll fucks riding for depreciation and over topment, to the benefit of British- aunts, and often been put forward that it is to provide herself with

is an im- head expenses. But this is a long hailt motors especially in

in countries imperative that something should imported from oversens

present prices the be done to develop commercially i pressive one, but it is relatively ery from the

Lieutenant-Colonel P. D. Ionides, channels of scientific significant when compared with motorist has to pay for his motor such as South Africa."

Chairman of the manufacturing research which have told us that it the huge coms expended for import-spirit, minus tax.

ed fiend-tulls, much of which could from is possible that, from Her supplies of coal alone, we can like he gradured is Great Britain if it were economically worth white, practically Inlepement of foreign, Alba! Lidgett. supplies, writes

Large Industry far ilome editor the Petroleum Times.

Oil Production. The suggestion is though not entirely convincing.

those vast.

this matter

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encanarizing.

le dangerous

Britain, however,

different sources;

aext to

the

of

pro

of

nt

out of

the whole of the Armstrong group, any and Vice-Chairman of aid that by the launching of a well-tried heavy oil vehlele such the Armstrong-Saurer, built at Newcastic-on-Tyne, it was hoped to give work to some thousands of people.

Quite apart pronouncements Imperial Chemical Industries, it is cow generally recognised that the production of motor spirit from

Lar British coal is possible, Rutherford recently confirmed this in the House of Lords, but he em- The whole question of whether we

Safety From Fire. it. Is said think var dependence in Ae to establish a large industry of phasised at the same time that, if the British people determine that Great home of production from British their motor-spirit supplies must be

"We are building a six-cylinder thereal, or rely, as we have hitherto

must be prepared to pay the price, heavy oil engine," he added, "s petroleum fuels in the world, and felt down to the patio as to This means, of course, that a home the power anil of various types of U.S.A.. the greatest consumer of done, on imported matre fuels, bolla furnished from British coal, they

for the time being at least this whether it is worth while to make country must import practically the the necessary sacrifices to render oil industry-suggestive of cover chassis, because of its safety from whole of its requirements. Those the country independent of overseeing our major requirements in fire risk and its low-running costs

engine. Lark on imported oil products, Already there are 1,000 vehicles requirements are drawn from nanyi, and, if so, whether the nation petrol-must be protected by a high-about two-thirds that of a petrol

its custom is is prepare 1 to pay the price,

making its price to consumers pro- almost na important to those who Here let us look at a few facts bably very considerably more than of the Saurer design running in England, and one user of these supply the oil as in Great Britain's as they appeal to the motorie it is at present, and quite irrespec-heavy oil motors has completed need of the same, for the reason fraternity. With the excise tax of tive of the excise tax.

nearly 82,000 miles on one vehicle that the loss of that custom would. per gallon, the motorlat in 'le

this year without a single day's be a severe renomic blow. With ito parchase the highest possibl a whole lot of countries anxious to value spirit-that is, the best grade have recognised this fact ever since rest for repairs or overhaul, in sell us oil, the

this of the whole of the combine controleum spirit has been cheap in

The new Armatronk-Saurer com- this country. The talk of supply sporting fish from Grimsby. country might suddenly be deprived panies for Is, 4. per gallon Is

bulk at the pumps. Other brands in all the oil requirements of the mercial chassis were to be seen at of the the Commercial Transport Motor ate some pener per gallon laver, nation from the coalfielde and many of these are really good kingdom, once seriousdy advocated Show, which opened at Olympia on

by

fuel experts, November 5. men regarded as

four-wheel 6-ton motor Fuel. Admittedly, the price

There was be mt enthusiastic of such advocates chassis, a six-wheeler carrying 12 war with about half the world, anihancellor of the Exchequer has has become impressed with the fact tons, and a four-wheeler four-ton

It suggests that we should be at is Betitiously low; that is why the bees dropped, because even the if Great Britain is ever effectively dropped another 2d. per gallon

fuel to compete fast freight work. blockaded to the extent of not being the fuel. But the whole position that it is hopeless to expect home-high speed chassis for coaches and

at present is very produced oil

petro- able to get oil from abroad it must as it exists.

imported into leum oils

this mean also that supplies of food temporary. The major portion of successfully with overseas

requirements Mpirit from abroad would airo be excluded. I cur

Even the differential of 8d. per and that its people must be starved from the United States, and there, country without restriction. into surrender in a short time.

gallon, due to die tax, hetween motor fuci from coal and that from foreign petroleum spirit is likely to to permit a prove far too small

- that

of supplies is farfetched..

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not only are prices very low, but Joven transport facilities are on a sale the lowness of which has before been experienced. Indeed, deets of tankers are to-tiny

never

Members of the institute of Fuel

Running normally from 1,000 to 2000 revolutions a minute, this

oil new heavy Armstrong-Saurer motor can speed up, it is stated, to | 3,500 revolutions a minute, silently and with freedom from vibration or noise. The engine is fitted with electrically-hented plugs so that it can be started from cold within

THE RIGHT WAY.

The other reason advanced for developing a home oil industry has ed on coal is that it would greatly relieve the distressed mining inclus try. It pas besi pointe i uut sathew / laid up the owners finding it is home oil industry to develop com | 20 seconds.-Ex. frequently by various experts that tter to charter tankers for their mercially so long as the basis prices pay the laying-up of imported motor spirit rénin the other reasonable. In these circamslarges if all the oil consurned in this pars and

Pharges. Incidentally, Country were obtained by the lay a tanker was chartered from this British cation enn only be sup hydrogenation of roal the muntity matant to UK at a price of us, pled with home-produced vil if it of coal required would only be of 9. per tot: normal prices would is prepared to pay a substantially. it the order of a few million tons have 1 more than double. Sach higher price than that at which per year, and by no means

is the state of the ocean transport can purchase imported petrol. The important as the annual fluctuations market. But there are other development of a home oil industry in the quantities of our coalex-factors which to-day count

depends upon how far the nation i

the British coal-minlay industry.

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ports. Consequently, the benefit to The world knows that erude oil

tries.

Discussed by the British Association.

of the

could not be very substantial. On has been overproduced recently, and the other hand, if it were decided hence the price of refined products to obtain the oil required from the has been insufficient to pay operat

of; ing costs. The consumer in the low-temperature carbonisation conl the quantity of coal required United Kingdom has benefited from

The chemistry section for home

would this abnormal state. But American consumption certainly be increased, perhaps by operators have learned the story of British Association discussed the twenty-five per cent. But there, the evil of unnecessary production; subject at a recent date. At the seems little reason to suppose that the result is that mutput is declin-1 meeting some very definite opinions this comparatively low oil yieldinging and many fields are producing were method providing about twenty not one-half of what they were a scientists. Sir John Cadman gallons of crude oil material per few months ago.

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Metal Tyre Cover Problems. With metal tyre covers becom-j willing to pay for the independenceing more and more popular every of its oll supplies from other coun-day, it is high time that motorists learn the corrent way to put them Pri- on and off the spare tyre.

П very perly approached, it is simple operation says

Service Sam" (Studebaker). On the other hand, if you go about it blindly, it 1s apt to prove rather a touchy job. Here is the easy way to put them expressed by well-known on: Hook the front end over the has tyre. Now the problem is to get come to the conclusion that while the back end of the cover in place ail for a long time to some would and that's where most people get largely produced in desert into trouble. If you will observe regions the naturally referred to carefully, however, you will find a "hook, Persia, Irak, etc.), the effort to small hook on the back side of the

By pulling on thi make Britain self-supporting in the cover, production of oil would, he believe, you spring the cover sufficiently to allow it to slip over the tyre easily. be to cut our own threats.

The hook should be clasped firmly The director of the Imperial Col-and pulled with a quick jork up- lege of Selenee Mr. II. T. Tizard-ward and outward in the line with was no less definite in his conclu- which the hand hook it set.

Now! sions, for he stated tint the real

It is necessary only to question was not whether coal could give the cover a push with the be converted into oll, but whether hand and it is right in place. You A will find that it is much easier to it would be economie to do so. comparison and analysis of the re-install the metai tyre, cover if the levant dures led him to the con-wheel is dismounted. To remove clusion that it was just barely pos- the cover, simply reverse this pro- sible to make oil by coal hydrogena-cess.

To avoid any possibility tion, but that it was very unlikely

of

to be an economic advantage. Any marring the surface of the cover, other estimate he regarded with the is a good plan to give it some greatest scepticism, and though by protection from the clamp of the hydrogenation of con! this country spare tyre mounting fixture. A could not only potentially but piece of heavy adhesive tape for cach clamp IR supplied with these spirit at a motor actually produce price which experience had shown covers. This should be adhered to to be by no means prohibitive to the under side of the clamps. the road transport industry, there

was no possibility, so far

na he

process.

development, could see, of producing it in com-way for wholesale petition with natural oil.

and at the same time it is ronson- There is, however, another side able to assume it might reveni many to the question, and that is the one economies in the operation of the put forward by the enthusiasts of

But for many years to come it coal hydrogenation for the products obvious the British motorist will tion of motor spirit in this country, have practically no alternative to Thin mass of opinion favours the the consumption of motor spirit encouragement of research, to the extent of substantial State produced overseas, much as he subsides for the erection of com- might from a patriotic standpoint mercial plants. This work might prafer to use the products of coal reasonably be expected to pave the hydrogenation and to be Independ

ent of supplies from abroad.

evon

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