§ Terms of Reference.—To consider and examine the possibility of increasing the amount of liquid products (tar, creosote, benzole, toluole, etc.) obtained by high-temperature carbonisation in gas-works and coke-ovens and the most advantageous means of utilising such products in war-time.
§ Constitution:
§ Chairman.
§ Mr. J. Davidson Pratt, O.B.E.
§ Members.
§ Mr. W. Gordon Adam.
§ Mr. S. Billborough.
§ Mr. G. A. Hebden.
§ Mr. A. H. Middleton.
§ Mr. Stanley Robinson.
§ Mr. A. W. Smith.
§ Mr. T. A. Smith.
§ Assessors.
§ Mr. J. F. Ronca, O.B.E.
§ Mr. J. G. King, Ph.D.
§ This committee has submitted an interim report on the recovery of benzole, and has also made a survey into the production and use of tar, creosote and pitch.