The Minister for Ca-ordination of Defence stated in the House of Commons recently that the Calcium Carbide Factory Investigation Committee, after full consideration of a number of schemes for the production of calcium carbide and allied products in United Kingdom, recommended that submitted by the British Oxygen Company. This Scheme provides for the erection of two factories, one at Port Talbot in South Wales, the other at Corpach in the West Highlands. Since the company have given an assurance that pending their obtaining the necessary powers for the Corpach factory they intend to proceed at once with the erection of the factory at Port Talbot, the scheme is regarded by the Government as satisfactory.
This is an important development. The United Kingdom go far has been dependent for almost the whole of its supplies of calcium carbide upon foreign countries,
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