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Originally Posted by Glider
An excellent Link many thanks.
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Excellent? A small understatement:
Page 13 "Suggest therefore that Shell be asked to import the whole of 500,000 gallons at their own expense"
page 19 (30-1-41) "Only a small portion of this percentage of 100 Octane Spirit is yet to be delivered, but the balance is now on the water according to our latest advices from the SHELL Company."
page 55 (22-2-41) 2 "Meantime I have spoken to Captain Jones of the Shell Company and informed him that we require 100,000 gallons (or some substantial portion thereof) of Octane 100 to be ordered at once for delivery..." (Group Captain Department of Supply)
page 59 (19-2-41) Cable to Shell "It is a provision of the new contracts about to be entered into with your company and the Vacuum Oil Company....The Department of Air now desires...that 1,000,000 gallons of 100 octane base fuel be substituted in lieu thereof...(Deputy Director of Contracts to General Manager Shell)
page 60 (19-2-41) Similar cable to Vacuum Oil.
and lots more besides - bottom line Australian Government ordered supplies of 100 octane directly from oil companies Shell and Vacuum