§ MR. TULLY () Leitrim, S.I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether be can state on what basis the Home Office experts assume that 27 degrees should be deducted from the 110 degrees fire-point Tagliabue test of petroleum in Pennsylvania, so as to make it equivalent to the 73 degrees Fahrenheit Abel close test employed in these countries.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. AKERS DOUGLAS, Kent, St. Augustine's)There is some mistake in the figures given in the lion. Member's Question. In particular, 63 degrees, not 73, was the figure given for Pennsylvania in the previous answer to which he refers. This statement of the approximate equivalent (according to the English Abel close test) for the results shown by the Tagliabue open test was based on a collation of statements of responsible officials in the United States who use the latter test.