Information is beginning to leak out regarding some experiments Henry Ford has been conducting for several years in connection with a new, low-temperature process for burning and distilling bituminous coal. Preliminary tests have been made quietly in a small plant at Huntington, W. Va., and two new plants are now under construction, one at River Rouge, Michigan, adjoining the Ford plant there, and a second at Walkerville, Ontario. Until these plants have been in operation for some time, the extent to which the new process is commercially successful cannot be determined.
Previously, the...
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