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Newspaper Articles Newspaper Articles 30th September 1933, Page: 85, Column: 2 Mass Research Attack Urged In the course of his opening address on Coal" at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Mr. Frank Hodges said the question on which the industry should concentrate was how to restore the 1930 level at remunerative prices so that funds would again be available for further technical developments and wages and profits. The importance of technical efficiency could not be exaggerated. Electricity and gas would continue their inevitable march, but coal was their fundamental raw material. Foreign oil was coal's real enemy, and the one which should be attacked over the next decade with the utmost technical and scientific vigour. It was calculated that by hydrogenation 250,000 tons of motor spirit required 1,000,000 tons of coal as raw material, and that at this rate 14,000,000 tons of coal per year would yield motor spirit equal to the present annual consumption of motor spirit in this country. He urged a mass research attack upon the whole problem of scientific coal utilisation, as this was a surer road to travel than the apparently unfruitful way of re-establishing British coal in markets which were being increasingly supplied with coal from other countries, or which were subject to a system of international quotas by restrictive international agreements. Names mentioned in this article Name Age Occupation Notes Hodges, FrankWhos Who Page
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30th September 1933, Page: 85, Column: 2 Mass Research Attack Urged In the course of his opening address on Coal" at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Mr. Frank Hodges said the question on which the industry should concentrate was how to restore the 1930 level at remunerative prices so that funds would again be available for further technical developments and wages and profits. The importance of technical efficiency could not be exaggerated. Electricity and gas would continue their inevitable march, but coal was their fundamental raw material. Foreign oil was coal's real enemy, and the one which should be attacked over the next decade with the utmost technical and scientific vigour. It was calculated that by hydrogenation 250,000 tons of motor spirit required 1,000,000 tons of coal as raw material, and that at this rate 14,000,000 tons of coal per year would yield motor spirit equal to the present annual consumption of motor spirit in this country. He urged a mass research attack upon the whole problem of scientific coal utilisation, as this was a surer road to travel than the apparently unfruitful way of re-establishing British coal in markets which were being increasingly supplied with coal from other countries, or which were subject to a system of international quotas by restrictive international agreements. 
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