POWDERED FUEL
AN IMPORTANT VENTURE
(Received Jan
16, 11 . p.m.)
LONDON. Jan. 15.
In continuation of Commander Brand’s 1923 investigations in respect of powdered fuel for the Australian Navy, an English company, which owns largo deposits of brown coal at Monvell, proposes to begin operations this year, distilling oil from brown’coal, one don of which, it is calculated, will yield fifteen gallons of oil. The residue will be used for the manufacture of briquettes, of which the calerific value is said to be equal to black coal. It will v also be used in the form of powdered fuel for power purposes. Mr Moore Brabazon has resigned the Parliamentary Secretaryship of the Ministry of Transport in order to become the chairman of the. company.—A, and N.Z.C.A. VV,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10307, 17 January 1927, Page 5
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127POWDERED FUEL Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10307, 17 January 1927, Page 5
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