Chapter I: Front Matter

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The Wallsend Slipway & Engineering

WALLSEND-ON-TYNE Company, Ltd.

MARINE ENGINE & BOILER BUILDERS & SHIP REPAIRERS

_Manufacturers of Installations for_

BURNING LIQUID FUEL

=Horse Power= of Boilers for which Installations have been supplied by the Company exceeds =3,000,000 h.p.=

Head Office and Works-- WALLSEND-ON-TYNE
Telegraphic Address-- “WALL,” NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE
London Office-- 30 GREAT ST. HELENS. E C. 3

ANGLO-MEXICAN PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

Exporters and marketers of the products of the Mexican Eagle
Oil Co., Ltd., including Mexican Fuel Oil and Diesel Oil,
Mexphalte, Fluxphalte, Mexican Eagle Bitumen, Lubricants, Gas
Oil, Kerosene and Motor Spirit.

EAGLE OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, LIMITED.

Owners of the fleet of modern Oil Tank Steamers engaged in the
transport of the above products.

BOWRING PETROLEUM COMPANY, LIMITED.

Marketing Agents in the United Kingdom for Mex Motor Spirit and
Kerosene, etc.

_Head Offices_:
16. FINSBURY CIRCUS.
--LONDON. E.C. 2--

_Telephone:
LONDON WALL 1200 (Twenty Lines)_

_Oil and “OILWELL” have grown up together. The oldest and largest manufacturers of well drilling tools._

DRILLING PLANT of every description

PUMPING OUTFITS for every service

PIPE-LINES and STORAGE TANKS

TRADE “OILWELL” MARK

Dashwood House, LONDON, E.C. 2

ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL COMPANY LIMITED

_Importers, Refiners and Distributors_

=_REFINED PETROLEUM OILS_=

WHITE ROSE (Water White), ROYAL DAYLIGHT and

CROWN DIAMOND--for Household use.

ANGLO’S VAPORISING OIL--for Oil Engines, Agricultural Tractors,
etc.

=_MOTOR SPIRIT_=

PRATT’S AVIATION--Refined to super-excellence for Aeroplanes
and Motor Cars.

PRATT’S PERFECTION--for all classes of Motor Cars.

TAXIBUS--for Commercial Vehicles.

ANGLO’S BENZOL--for Motor Cars and Commercial Vehicles.

ANGLO’S VICTORY SPIRIT--a perfect Petrol-Benzol blend.

FUEL OIL--for Diesel Engines, Furnaces, Ships’ Bunkers, etc.

GAS OIL--for Gas-making.

LUBRICATING OILS AND GREASES, PARAFFIN WAX AND SCALE.

NUJOL--Finest Medicinal Oil.

HEAD OFFICE:

36 QUEEN ANNE’S GATE, WESTMINSTER, S.W.1

_Branches and Depots throughout the United Kingdom._

_The Largest Makers of_

OIL STORAGE TANKS

_Tanks of Any Size Supplied and Erected Anywhere._

DARLINGTON, ENGLAND

Established 1790]

PETROLEUM REFINERY PLANTS

Telegrams--

“WHESSOE, LONDON.” “WHESSOE, DARLINGTON.”

London Office:--

106 CANNON STREET, E.C.4

(Drilled under Government authority and brought into production in June, 1919)

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PITMAN’S COMMON COMMODITIES
AND INDUSTRIES

PETROLEUM

BY

ALBERT LIDGETT

EDITOR OF THE “PETROLEUM TIMES”
LATE EDITOR OF THE “PETROLEUM REVIEW”

LONDON

SIR ISAAC PITMAN & SONS, LTD., 1 AMEN CORNER, E.C.4
BATH, MELBOURNE AND NEW YORK

PRINTED BY SIR ISAAC PITMAN
& SONS, LTD., LONDON, BATH,
MELBOURNE AND NEW YORK