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THE Secretary for Mines has asked the committee which considered low–temperature carbonization processes last year to reassemble, and to examine the sources of fuel for producer gas vehicles, to estimate the quantities that could be made available at present, and to report on the measures that would be required to increase the supplies if necessary. The committee will also inquire whether the development of the peat resources of Great Britain would make any useful contribution to the supplies of domestic fuel in the present coal situation. The constitution of the committee is: Lord Henley (chairman); Mr. Gordon Macdonald, M.P.; Dr. W. H. Mills, lately reader in stereo–chemistry in the University of Cambridge; Mr. F. B. Richards, chairman of Woodall–Duckham Company; Mr. J. Shearman, road motor engineer, L.M.S. Railway; Mr. T. E. B. Young, general manager, Bolsover Colliery Company; Mr. W. A. Mac–farlane (secretary); and Dr. F. S. Sinnatt, director of fuel research (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research), and Mr. J. A. Brook, Mines Department, assessors.
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Committee on Producer Gas Fuel. Nature 148, 624–625 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148624d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148624d0