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Volume of papers and reports 1928-1949

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Papers on the smoke abatement movement, collected into a file:
"Burning Spoil Heaps in the West Riding", 1949
"Hydrogenation in the Fuel and Chemical Industries" by Kenneth Gordon, October 1947
"Inefficieny" by Oliver Lyle, O.B.E., March 1946
"The Distribution of Ash in British Coals and its Bearing on the Economics of Coal Cleaning" by E S Grumell, C.B.E., M.I.Min.E., and A C Dunningham, D.Sc., December 1946
"Progress in the Hydrogenation of Coal and Tar"' by Kenneth Gordon, C.B.E., M.C., December 1946
"Bulk Production of Smokeless Domestic Fuel" by John Roberts, D.I.C., M.I.Min.E. F.G.S., September 1928
"The Carbonisation of Screened, Mixed and Blended Coals" by H Hollings, M.Sc., February 1933
"Report on a Survey of the Gas Industry in Great Britain", 1943
"London County Council Report on Public Control Officer's Action to Mitigate Atmospheric Pollution", 1936
"The Institute of Fuel: Symposium on the Production and Utilisation of Domestic Coke", November 1936
"Solid Smokeless Fuel", editorial in Gas Journal, August 1938
Correspondence between Arnold Marsh, Secretary of the Smoke Abatement League of Great Britain and A W S Seton, L&N Coal Distillation Limited, with attached reports, August 1928
"The Chemical ngineering Aspect of Low Temperature Carbonisation" by Colonel W A Bristow, M.I.E.E., F.R.Ae.S., November 1934
"Report on Turner Low Temperature Retort" by D Adam, B.Sc., M.I.M.E., June 1929
"Coal Distillation in Rotary Retorts (Internally Heated)", by Harald Nielsen, April 1932
"Progress of New British Industry: Smokeless Fuel, Petrol and Fuel Oil", December 1933
"Oil Reserves of the World: Their Distribution and Future", by Dr G M Lees, M.C., D.F.C., F.R.S., April 1948
"Sources of Energy" by J Eccles, B.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., August 1946

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