1248.    GREAT BRITAIN HYDROCARBON OIL DUTIES COMMITTEE (SIR AMOS L. AYRE, Chairman).  Report of Hydrocarbon Oils.  Coke Smokeless-Fuel Age, vol. 7, 1945, pp. 88-90; Chem. Trade Jour., vol. 116, 1945, pp. 423-426; Chem. Age, vol. 52, 1945, pp. 343-345; Petrol. Times, vol. 49, 1945, pp. 304-309.

       Report, with comments indicating the importance of developing chemical manufactures based on coal by products.  It is recommended by the committee that imported hydrocarbon oil used for chemical synthesis should be free of duty and for indigenous oil similarly used, allowances should be paid equal to the respective duties.  An interesting feature of the Fischer-Tropsch process is that the products are aliphatic, not aromatic, in character and thus resemble petroleum rather than coal oils produced by other processes.  Many of the more important chemicals which can be produced form petroleum could therefore be derived with equal and, in some cases, greater facility from the primary products of hydrocarbon synthesis.