§ 22. Mr. PERKINS (for Sir PHILIP DAWSON)asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air; in view of the fact that oil satisfactory for lubricating purposes in connection with aircraft cannot be produced either from the oil supplied by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, or from any oil emanating from or produced in any part of the British Empire, if he will state what steps are being taken by the Royal Air Force or by the Department of Industrial Research to remedy this position?
§ Sir P. SASSOONThe Department has put in hand an investigation of the types of oil available from oilfields within the Empire or under British control to see whether a source of Imperial supply at reasonable prices cannot be developed. Research work bearing on the problem is also in progress at the Fuel Research Station of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.