unking fuel by pipeline
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'he 245-mile Thames-Mersey pipe the UK's first long-distance comial line—becomes fully operational on lay. Via four depots, it links refineries icean installations on the Thames estuary the Mersey with the Midlands and the west areas of Greater London and the Counties.
)bil, Petrofina, Shell-Mex and BP and :o /Regent petroleum products will flow
at an initial rate of nearly 4m tons a year, probably double that by the early Eighties. Products dealt with are petrol, paraffin, gas oil, Derv, aviation fuel and petroleum feed stock, separated from each other by inflatable rubber-spheres.
Terminals served by the line are at Kingsbury, Hemel Hempstead, Northampton and Uttoxeter. Road transport will continue to distribute products from these points.