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THOSE who have maintained that the successful production of petrol from coal would prove of incalculable benefit to our long languishing coal industry will derive much satisfaction from a reply given in the House of Commons on May 17. Mr. Mitcheson asked the Secretary for Mines if he could furnish an estimate of the increased consumption of coal in Great Britain which has resulted from the imposition of a duty on fuel oil. The Secretary for Mines (Mr. Ernest Brown), in reply, said: “Official information is not available. But a short time ago I received a deputation from the Coal Utilisation Council and other bodies, which furnished detailed information, collected by various trade organisations. This showed that, in terms of coal, there had been conversions from oil to coal and coal products, and business retained which it was stated would, but for the tax, have been lost to home produced fuels, representing an annual rate of consumption of over 600,000 tons.”
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Petrol from Coal. Nature 133, 789 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133789a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133789a0