National Benzole Association
of Wellington House, Buckingham Gate, London, S.W.1, an association concerned with promoting and setting standards for benzole as a motor fuel.
1919 Formation of the National Benzole Association, chaired by D. Milne-Watson of the Gas Light and Coke Co. and involving many of the main benzole producers, intended to establish a new distribution organisation to rival that of the petrol companies[1]. Soon afterwards the National Benzole Co was established with the Association offering to provide a point of advice on benzole and any general matters the National Benzole Co., Ltd., may refer for assistance and suggestion, to make suggestions to the company in respect of any proposals to popularize the use of benzole by motor vehicle users and increase the consumption, and to vet the development of other home-produced motor spirits, and to advise the board as to a separation in any or all of these developments.[2]
1927 Patent "Liquid fuel for use in internal combustion engines and process for the production thereof" with William Hermann Hoffert.
1929 First published "Standard Specifications for Benzole and Allied Products", 1929 (The National Benzole Association).[3]
1931 Published "Motor Benzole — Its Production and Use", the authors being Messrs. W. H. Hoffert and G. Claxton, research chemists to the association.[4]
1931 "The National Benzole Association has for the past ten years carried out important research work on the production, refining, and other matters concerning the Benzole industry, and the annual reports containing the result of ..."[5]
1936 National Benzole Company (the distributing organisation controlled by the British producers) and the National Benzole Association (a non-trading organisation which confines its activities to technical and statistical matters in connection with the industry).[6][7]