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IN the House of Commons, on March 20, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Secretary for Mines, stated that Sir Harold Hartley had been appointed honorary adviser on the development of home-produced fuels. A number of leading representatives of industry, finance, and technical science, under the chairmanship of Sir William Bragg, had been asked to make a rapid survey of the subject in the light of war conditions, and within a month this authoritative body completed its survey. On its recommendations the following six specific problems are being investigated simultaneously: (1) the production of oil from coal by synthetic processes, under the chairmanship of Sir William Jowitt; (2) the products of low-temperature carbonization, under Lord Henley; (3) the liquid products of high-temperature carbonization, under Mr. Davidson Pratt; (4) alternative fuels for internal combustion engines, under Viscount Ridley; (5) the development of the use of colloidal fuel, under Mr. Irvine Geddes; and (6) the more efficient use of fuel generally, under Sir Clement Hindley.
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Substitutes for Imported Fuels. Nature 145, 505 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145505b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145505b0