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Oil Company Booklets, Leaflets and Reports
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"The Story of Mineral Oil". Scottish Oil Agency Ltd, 1920. LVSAV1990.001.005. (2.61MB) |
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"A Real Scottish Industry". Scottish Oils Ltd, c.1928. LVSAV2009.024. (0.77MB) |
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"The Scottish Shale Oil Industry". Scottish Oils and Shell-Mex Ltd, c.1938. (1.51MB) |
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"A Brief Description of the Operations of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry". Scottish Oils Ltd, 1948. (1.70MB) Transcribed. |
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"Oakbank Oils". Oakbank Oil Company Ltd, c.1913. BP Archive 183524. (1.78MB) |
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"The Pumpherston Oil Company, Glasgow" Pumpherston Oil Company Ltd. c.1910. LVSAV 2008.012.002. (1.56MB) |
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"A Brief Description of the Operations of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry". Scottish Oils Ltd, 1938. LVSAV 2009.015 (1.88MB) |
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Reprint from "Wonders of World Engineering". Scottish Oils and Shell-Mex Ltd, c.1933. (0.76MB)
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"A Brief Description of the Operations of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry". Scottish Oils Ltd, 1951. LVSAV 2009.065 (1.6MB) |
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"An Assembly of Evidence to Describe the State of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry in the Decade 1910/20, with Notes on the Pre-1910 and Post-1920 Years". D Stewart, Scottish Oils Ltd, 1966. LVSAV2009.012 (6.6MB) |
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"History of the Scottish Oil-Shale Industry" by H.R.J. Conacher, reprinted from "Oil-Shales of the Lothians, 3rd edition 1927, BP Archive 128105 (4.1MB) |
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Local History books
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Bygone Days by Daniel Rankin Steuart, Geological Survey, Scotland, 1927. LVSAV2019.178 (31.36MB) |
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A History of the Town and Palace of Linlithgow by George Waldie, 1879. LVSAV2019.199 (28.33MB) |
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"Strathbrock or the History and Antiquities of the Parish of Uphall" by Rev. James Primrose, 1898. LVSAV2016.090 (14.06MB) |
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"The Campaign Book, The Church of Scotland: Presbytery of Bathgate, October to December 1936". LVSAV2019.198 (12.82MB) |
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Technical Publications
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"The Oil-Shales of the Lothians, 3rd Edition" Geological Survey, Scotland, 1927. LVSAV2010.163. (37MB) |
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"A Symposium of Studies and Researches in the Oil Shale Industry" Arthur J. Franks, Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines. Vol 15, No.4, October 1921. BP Archive 215943 (8.1MB) |
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"Seventy-Five Years of Oil Shale Mining" by J.B. Sneddon and W. Caldwell, reprinted from Oil and Cannel Coal, proceedings of a conference held in Scotland 1938, BP archive 215947 (3.1MB)
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"Joint report on the Bituminous or Oil Shales of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia also of the Oil-Shale Industry of Scotland", Canada Department of Mines, Ottowa, 1909. LVSAV2012.005 (21.7MB) |
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Investigations and Commentary
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"Report of a Court of Investigation Concerning the Wages Position in the Scottish Shale Oil Industry". March 1926, LVSAV2010.016. (5MB) |
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"Revival in the Scottish Shale Oil Industry", reprint of an article published in the Financial Times on 15th December 1938. BP Archive 215944. (0.5MB) |
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James Young Memorial Lecture
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"The James Young Memorial Lecture (1948)" by Edwin H. Bailey, BP Archive, 215314. (5.73MB) |
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Other Publications Available Online
Many contemporary reference works that describe or relate to the Scottish shale oil industry are already available as downloadable digital documents through the Internet Archive project, based in San Francisco.
- Joint Report on the Bituminous, or Oil Shales of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; also, On the oil-shale industry of Scotland. Ells, R. W. (1909) http://www.archive.org/details/jointreportonbit00ellsiala
- The Oil-shales of the Lothians. Cadell, H. M., Grant Wilson, J. S., Caldwell, W., Stewart [sic], D. R. (First Edition 1906) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924004686329
- The Oil-shales of the Lothians. Carruthers, R. G., Caldwell, W., Steuart, D. R. (Second Edition 1912) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924004669119
- Short papers from the Cooperative Oil-Shale Laboratory. Gavin, Martin J., Sharp, Leslie J. (1921) http://www.archive.org/details/shortpapersfromc00gavirich
- A Treatise on the Geographical Distribution and Geological Occurrence of Petroleum and Natural Gas, the physical and chemical properties, production and refining of petroleum and ozokerite ... together with a description of the shale oil and allied industries, and a full bibliography, Redwood, Boverton, Sir (1913) http://www.archive.org/details/petroleumtreatis00redwuoft Petroleum
- The Oil Shale Industry. Alderson, Victor Clifton (1920) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924004123661
- The Technical Examination of Crude Petroleum, Petroleum Products and Natural Gas, including also the procedures employed in the evaluation of oil-shale and the laboratory methods in use in the control of the operation of benzol-recovery plants. Hamor, William Allen, Padget, Fred Warde. (1920) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924054705045
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