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FLEETS TO

AIR

ON COAL

British Oil Sensation

BRITAIN'S air fleets of, the future may fly on synthetic petrol, the product of Britain's semi-derelict coal- fields. Such is the possibility opened up by activities in the little mining village of Glenboig, Coatbridge, Glas- gow.

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Here, a demonstration plant is making synthetic oil from coal-at the rate of 200 gallons a day. The product is a crude oil which splits up into 50 per cent. lubricating

oil.

The motor spirit with the ad-1mercial plant has been erected at the dition of appropriate amounts Bedlay Collery, Glenbolg.

have

Whalley of tetra ethyl lead, becomes an Broadly the position, as

There are three aeroplane spirit comparable with explains it, is this.

jej older methods of making oll from the highest grade, such as

failed. High and low temperature used in the fastest military ma-coal, all of which seem to

carbonisation are too expensive. At Billingham, a big plant is working at temperatures and pressure that cat through steel like mice eating cheese.

chines,

SIXPENCE A GALLON

The other process is the German In Fischer and Tropsch process,

The crude synthetic oil made by the demonstration plant at present costs Dd. a gallon. But it is claimed that once the process is working directly at the pit-heads, by collieries which certain British collieries have giving their entire output over to oil laken an intereal. production, the cost per gallon will fall to at most 6d. ~Motor spirit can be imported at 41⁄2da gallon. The Government, however, uarantees a preference of Bd. a gallon to home-produced motor -spirit and diesel oil.

This, on the comparatively low costs of the synthelle process, brings home production into the sphere of commercial enterprise.

Importert motor spirit stored for any prolonged period "Kums" and may have to be refined again. Syn- thetic petrol does not "gum." Such a point has obvious military import-

nnec.

This one is expensive, and even in Germany, the plant is now being used almost entirely for the produc- edible and usn of chemicals and

no like- other fats. There seems

thood of its being used here.

By contrast, the synthetic oil pro- tem- cess is simple, It works at a

about 180 degrees centi- perature nf grude, pressures not much higher than that of the atmosphere

Its raw material is coko-almost any sort of coke, made from any sort of coal. In other processes metallurgical coke has been used. This has two disadvantages-one, that is dear: the other that it uses up a valuable raw material. The synthetic oil process colliery expenses in grading, screen- coul. Coke

The demonstration plant is working, and cleaning the

saves

ing on a new Belilsh process which, made from dirty coal is good enough

Its sponsors say, may revolutionise for its purpose,

the oil situation in this country,

RESCUING THE COALFIELDS

SPECIAL PROPERTIES

the coke, ordinary From

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Recently it was discussed with its water gas is obtained (not the puri-

Friday,

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Strike for increased wages by more than 4,000 elevator operators In New York City tied up hundreds of buildings, particularly in the fur and garment centres, and prevented more than 100,000 employes from going to work. Above, Jeanne Gregory, left, her sister Trene, right, and Lillian Berson, clothes models, started to hike to the

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munaging director, Mr. 5. D. Whut Bed water gas of ather processes). BRITAIN'S new Army-on-Wheels demonstrated its

ley. He claims that there, at last, Is This is converted into a crude ali. an economical and efficient synthetic

which

process, the development of which above.

speed and hitting power on the plains of Aldershot fractionates indicated recently to members of Parliament, and the new soldier Special properties are claimed for paraded in battle order that would puzzle the veterans of lict coalfields of Great Britain, which the lubricating oil. It has a great 1914-18. should henceforward be regarded as temperature range-that is to say. our chief sources of oil supply.

would mean rescuing the semi-dere-

it would be suitable for aeroplanes Mr. Hore-Belisha, the Minister of War, was not there

The Labour Party's report on "On which fly in a few minutes from a himself-there was a Cabinet meeting-but he had com- from Coal" made a favourable com- temperate zone near the ground to

manded a showing of the Army's closest secrets, and 148 ment on his process, recommending a frigid zone in the upper air.

Crude synthetic oil need not be M.P.s ploughed through Aldershot's yellow mud to see the erection of six plants.

Since then it has been Improved made Into motor spirit, but cun be by the introduction of a sulphur-cracked up into a number of valu- them. resisting catalyst, and the semi-com-able solvents, waxes, and other pro-

Auto Thefts

Toledo, O. City police reported a 30 per cent. reduction in automobile thefis during 1938, compared-with-1997----Lust-year 703 cars were stolen and all except 22 were recovered.

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Among the weapons of de- and terror, Mr. But the Importance of the motor struction spirit, which

en be turned into Magician-Belisha put on show a neroplane spirit. is obvious.

magic carpet, Afty yards long, it hard to find out," said Mr. A few days ago a field was filled

Government] "what the Whalley.

with heavy poison gas. A roll 88 petrol.' pays for s 'octane Presumably, it pays no duty, of this "carpet"-it looks like so, I liave been fold that it three thicknesses of "paper-was" Even puys 38, 5d. a gallon. It it paid laid across the field, and 1,000

18. G. a gallon, that would only give a price well inside our scope.men walked across it without "We don't argue only from military getting their Army boots burn- necessity." and Mr. Whalley. "What ed or contaminated.

we argue is that for normal peace- time needs our coalfieds should be regarded as oil sources."

The men in gas-masks who stood

beside the carpet wore yellow culfs

One of the new guns looks like a steel hose-pipe, and is claimed to be the best anti-aircraft piece in the world for dealing with low-flying airplanes.

It fires 3 2-1b. shell that explodes If it touches a sheet of paper and explodes so completely that-none-of-it--falls-lo-eartli The gun fires 120 of these a minute, and a sergeant said he could count on thirty-seven hits out of fifty-five on a target tewed at 100 m.p.h.

They said at Aldershot, there is now no shortage of the famous their oilskins. Those cuffs Bren gun. Compared with 1013. British con over output

down by 45 million tons.would have changed colour if a trace This would convert into 7,500,000 of poison gas had come over on the tons. Experts believe it would take cold wind.

years before coal could be converted Yellow discs were senttered on the on this scale. But it is argued that ground. They were "gas detectors". that only makes a stronger case for too. That is a gas detection squad) beginning the job soon.

in the new Army,

Car Bandits Made

Some of the smarter-booted officers said they disiliced, the new battle dress for the foot soldier.

Gone are puttees. They give way

P.C. Leap For Life to small ankle gaiters like those of

POLICE were recently search-

ihe Marines. Brass buttons have given way to bakelite buttons.

The soldier will go into battle! in a windproof sult, the close

tung tunle buttoning into khaki) trousers that would do well for ski-ing.

This uniform was in the expert-

ing for bandits who raided three houses near Worplesdon (Surrey) golf club and broke through a police cordon in a stolen car, nearly knocking mental stage up to the crisis. Since down an officer:

Motorists on all main ronds from Woking to London and the coast were stopped and questioned,

DROVE AT P.C.

P. C. Spriggs, who was guarding Black Horse Lane, attempted to stop

then thousands have been issued.

Army chemists are experimenting. and believe that soon they will bet

able to make the material gas-proof". jas well as windproof,

M.P.s climbed a hill and packed themselves into a stand with a wide: view to get a glimpse of the new mechanised Army on the move.

Twelve squat scouting armoured The driver drove straight at the "

& mile officer, who had to jump aside to cars appeared in the mist

In less than two minutes, avoid being knocked down.

a small saloon car.

away.

In falling he managed to obtain the leaping over the rough ground, they number of the car, which was later were past the stand." reported stolen from the garage of

Of eleven different types of tank Mr. B. Jobling, of The Gate House shown, seven are on the secret list. One, fast and heavily armoured, Worplesdon Hill."

When, shortly after midday. the looks like a submarine. There is a car was found abandoned In a by- short periscope through which the road near Guildford with some of the Sunaer in the round conning towerf stolen property in it, the police takes his sights, and the driver, sale cordon was withdrawn.

from all non-piercing bullets, also The cordon, for which police on looks into a periscope. This la an

guult tank. duty were reinforced by others called nasuult from Uheir beds, was, hurriedly The commentator said: "It repre- drawn when Captain Charles Napler senta a new .conception in design Ambrose, of Bracken Lodge, Wor-and construction considerably in plesdon Hill, reported that his house advance of foreign countries," had been broken into. Sliver and jewellery were stolen,

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I

Fatal

Simsbury, Conn.

All of the tank squadrons were commanded by radio. Thin, up- right aerials waved from their Abopea like the feelers of under- water monsters..

Special pride of the new Army is | The Intest anti-tank gun—lowed be- hind light dragons or tanks..It cur fire from Ils wheels in an "emer- James P. Curtiss is allergic togency, but, normally, fires from the wasps and when ong stung him he central mounting, which – givesi lon almost died. Doctors worked over all-round 2 Laverse

him for five hours and adrainistored eighteen-inely Jong, shells, will pierca adrenalin before they could restore the heaviest,” lanky armour, then ihim to conseLOUISNESS, -

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