IRAQ PIPE-LINE OPENED.
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Last Monday, King Ghazi of Iraq performed the first opening ceremony for the 1,150-mile pipe-line carrying oil from the Kirkuk Fields to the Medi terranean. This pipe-line has cost 210,000,000, and it is estimated that it will carry 4,000,000 tons of oil per year to two points on the Mediterranean. After crossing the Tigris and Euphrates it forks, one branch running across Syria to Tripoli and the other through the Syrian Desert and Transjordania to Haifa.
The construction of this pipe-line was undertaken by the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd. The main line is 12 ins, in diameter, with electrically welded joints, and has a total weight of 123,000 tons. Many of the large fleet
of yehicles employed during its construction were supplied by well-known British makers, and the total haulage was 23,000,000 ton-miles, apart from 13,000,000 miles done by passenger and lighter vehicles.'
Four more ceremonies are to he conducted before the opening is officially completed.
Road Accidents in 1934.
According to preliminary figures that have recently been issued, 7,273 persons Were killed and 231,698 were injured in road accidents in Great Britain daring 1934. The corresponding figures for 1933 were 7,202 and 216,328 respectively. The number of accidents involving death or personal injury was 201,800, 7,088 of them being of a fatal character and 197,712 involving per sonal injury. All these figures were higher/ than for 1933.
Death of Henlys Chairman.
We regret to announce the death, on Tuesday last, of Mr. Frank Hough, chairman and joint founder of Henlys, Ltd., the well-known concern of automobile dealers, which also markets the range of Studebaker Pierce-Arrow cornrn mercial vehicles. He was 46 years old.