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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1912

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/85-86

Scope and Contents

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Commission, particularly meeting with Dr George Beilby on the possibility of producing oil from coal. Fisher asks WSC to keep the letter "deadly secret and never mention it", stating that it was not a dream, nor the "outpouring of a diseased imagination". [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/160-164 for original].

Dates

  • Creation: 29 Aug 1912

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Copyright: Lord Fisher

Extent

2 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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