§ 75. Mr. Errollasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will make arrangements with the United States Navy Department for the engine- testing, either in the United States of America or in this country, under observation by their representatives, of lubricating oil manufactured in Britain and which meets the full United States Navy Specification 9250, so that unnecessary dollar expenditure can be saved on building up stocks of products which British manufacturers are capable of producing themselves.
§ Mr. CallaghanAction is in hand to select certain British lubricating oils for tests by the U.S. Navy Department to find out if these products will meet the standardised specification. Subject to this proof it would be Admiralty policy to buy our own products and avoid dollar expenditure. Consideration is being given to setting up an Admiralty testing plant to prove British products.