§ Mr. ATKEYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether he is aware that the Director of Steel Production compiled statistics showing the amount of coal carbonised both in patent by-product ovens and in bee-hive ovens in the years 1917 and 1918; and whether he would now publish these figures for each method of carbonisation?
Mr. HOPEThe only figures available are those for the production of metallurgical coke for the years 1916, 1917, and 1918; these will afford some indication of the amount of coal carbonised in coke ovens during those years. The figures are as follow:
Tons. 1916 13,422,195 1917 13,801,607 1918 13,277,007 The subdivision between by-product, beehive, and retort ovens can only be given for the year 1917, and is as follows:
1917. Tons. By-product 10,866,673 Bee-hive 2,411,244 Retort 523,690