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PETROL PROSPECTING LICENCES RENEWED

23rd March 1940, Page 17
23rd March 1940
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Page 17, 23rd March 1940 — PETROL PROSPECTING LICENCES RENEWED
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l'HE Secretary for Mines announces 1 the renewal, for a further term of 12 months from January 25, 1940, of two prospecting licences granted under the Petroleum (Production) Act, 1934, and the Petroleum (Production) Regulations, 1935, to Steel Bros. and Co., Ltd., 6, Fenchurch Avenue, London, E.C.3. The licensed areas concerned consist of (I) about 173 sq. miles in the counties of York, Derby and Cheshire, and (2) about 177 sq. miles in the counties of York, Lancaster and Cheshire.

Scottish Operators Please Commissioner GRATIFICATION at the manner in which the transport problems of the area, arising out of war conditions, were being dealt with by members, was expressed by Mr. Archibald Henderson, Southern Area (Scotland) Transport Commissioner, when he spoke at last Saturday's annual dinner

and dance of the Glasgow area of the Scottish Commercial Motor Users and Horse Owners' Associations.

He stressed the vital importance of transport as an essential war service, in which everyone who did the particular job allotted him was helping towards the ultimate vindication of the principles of liberty, for which the war was being waged.

ALDERMAN RICHARD MAYNE, chairman of the transport and electricity committee of Newcastle-on-Tyne for 25 years, is to receive the Freedom of the city.

Mr. W. G. SMALE, chief accountant of Hen:ey's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., recently completed 40 years' service with the Henley concern, and a -few days ago Sir Montague Hughman, chairman of the company, presented him with a silver tea and coffee set on behalf of the directors, management and staff of the tyre concern. BREAKING DOWN PRODUCERGAS PREJUDICE

T'HE belief that prejudice. against

producer-gas vehicles is gradually being broken down was expressed by Mr. B. E. Monck, of the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.. when addressing Edinburgh Rotary Club. It was now accepted by many prominent engineers, he said, that producer as was the most practicable alternative fuel to petrol or oil fuel for road-transport vehicles. He mentioned the importance of conserving and releasing petrol and oil fuel for the fighting services, and pointed out That, in cost, the fuel for use in gas producers was equivalent to buying petrol at 5d. or 6d. a gallon.

The main disadvantage was that, however good the gas producer, the loss of power varied from 10 to 20 per cent. That, however, had not prevented road-transport operators from maintaining time schedules with vehicles converted for the use of producer gas.


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