HC Deb 20 March 1940 vol 358 cc1998-9

Terms of Reference.—To consider and report on the best means of encouraging and developing the use of home-produced fuels in internal combustion engines under war conditions.

Constitution:

Chairman.

Major the Viscount Ridley, C.B.E.

Members.

Mr. A. A. M. Durrant, M.I.A.E., M.I.Mech.E.

Mr. J. S. Nicholl, C.B.E.

Mr. J. Arthur Reavell, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Chem.E.

Mr. H. R. Ricardo. F.R.S.

Assessors

Mr. C.G.Williams, M.Sc., M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E.

Mr. O. W. J. Watson, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.A.E.

Mr. T. F. Hurley, B.Sc, A.M.Inst.C.E.

This committee is following up, on a much wider field, the work already done by the committee on the emergency conversion of motor vehicles to producer gas, whose report was published 6th February, and is also dealing with the use of steam and electricity as alternative means of propulsion for road transport.