Mukden, May 22, Late last year the 1. C: I, plant at Billingham, was formally opened, It has been designed to produce 45,000, 000 gallons of motor' spirit a year, two-thirds, of which will be recovered directly from coal, and the balance from tar olls, The capital expenditure was over £5,000,000. "It has been, Pointed out that in Great Britain the roftuetion of motor fuel by hydro: geration of coal did not promise a solution of the fuel problem because of the large capital involved. The erection of smaller producing units would result in greater production costs, 'The normal demand for Manchoukuo is approximately halt the capacity of the Billingham Plant, is interesting to note that for' the last to be erected at Ssupingkai a capital of less than £300,000 was proposed, and the S. M. R, plant scheduled for Fushun is to start with an investment of approximately £240,000 10 be augmented by something over £600,000 next year. Tt is reported that the plan calls for 20,000 ons of oil a year, The British plant costing over five times as much is Scheduled to produce about 134,000 tons of motor spirit,
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