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The refinery by night. The oil is refined 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
With the great "cal-cracker" in the background, two oilmen discuss their problems. Gllbert Granger (right). is an operator on the "eat-cracker," which produces 000,000 gallons of premium petrol dally, Mr H. A. Woodford works on the
distillation plan.
The hands turning this
heel áre hose of
To make, surs,
two
Franist. Woolnaugh
frequently for
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1954.
Sheaffers "SNORKEL"
Puzzle-Find The Petrol Mail
invisible yet 1,500,000
The process is through the refinery.
gallonsa
And the tax man has an office in the
works to collect £187,500 a day? A
MILLION and a half gallons of petrol flow every day from the vast Esso refinery at Fawloy, on Southampton Water, the biggest in Britain. Yet in all the 1,000 neres I HAW only enough petrol to drive a car two or three miles.
Making, petrol at Fawicy is a nover-ending 24 hours a day,
I Reven days a week process. is also on Invisible one.
Ocean-going tankers bring the crude oil from the Middle East -mostly
from Kuwait-and and when they the up at Fawley Jetty, the all is pumped straight 30,000-top.storage tanks.
From these it is plped through the giant distillation plante and for high-grade petrol, through the 200ft, high cat-cracker."
Tiny samples
There has been an oil refinery Pawley since soon after the 1014-18 wat. Bob the new refinery whose gleaming sliver- painted towers and tanks rire high above Southampton Water and fringe upon the New Forest, was opened two years ago,
It cost £37,500,000; it saves Britain 2,000,000 dollars every
week.
From
Like symbols of the never
flow of petrol arc ting Fawky's famous flames. the tops of two 200, "exhaust plpe the flames burn day and Right using up the overflow guste, sometimes streaming out son, or inote,
Man's world
Peel production is a man S world. No women are enanged its the actual operation.
By
Fawley employs 2,855 people, but only 800 men are plant And these are cperators. When it comes out as potret it split up into three shifts in piped to storage tanks and gels the Impressions that besides Invisible process, again pumped into
tankerm
an
onc
which carry away, nearly all the making petrol is virtually auto-
Fawley-produced petrol to de- pots on the Thames at Avon- mouth and other ports,
All that was visible of the day's 1,500,000 gollong were the tiny mumples tapped off every hour, sometimes every hálf-hour, and taken to the refinery laboratories for testing.
One and a half million gallong mean 1,500,000
half-crowns
of the Exchequer, and Customs and Excise officials have an Биге offléo at Fowley to make that Mr Butler receives his daily £187,800.
matic, too.
In charge of the operations of the great "cat-cracker"--cataly the cracking plant-which gives British motorists over 600,000 gellons of "Extra" spirit dally. 19 27-year-old Ted Jeffers, who went into oil after getting his .Sc. in chemical engineering k the
College Imperial Selence, South Kensington.
Mr Jeffers who
who spent alx morkha in America to learn the
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By JAMES STUART
The "cracking" plant runs non-stop for just over a year. Then the overhaul is a four week Job by 780 men,
As gullman in charge of dis- tillation during his shift; I found 52-year-old BLU Storer, who worked for 14 years as a coal- miner in Nottinghamshire. He has been at Fawley just over 20 years.
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"I have a sors aged 25 who is electrician in the Bahrein oilfields. He used to be here at Fawley atx had a better start In re thom I had."
Star turn
BHI Storer, I was told, is the star "um" at billiards among the Fawley men. And he used to
be a fine footballer, "I did have the chance to sign as a profesional for Mansfield Town when I was 19" he said, "But didn't."
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Stillman in the "old refinery" is 00-year-old John Woolnaugh, He was born on Southampton
Water at Exbury only miles
four
from Fawley and still carries in his pocket his dis- charge from the merchant navy even though that was in 1922,
pipe awing
and
Mes
Working in the office, on plans of apparatus are three Ellocit
Mrs Margaret Love, Sougnez and Mist Dee Hiscox.
Yorkshire
girl. Mrs Love worked for an engineering firm before joining Esse four years ago. Her work at Fowley all technical drawing but she 1s ELT accomplished painter, actress and musician.
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of posting for email to theatre Д five-nights per-Europe (U.K. etc.), Afrion, Middle
was formance
of Pakistan and India will be' N shown
with follows:- Jack and the Beanstalk. Eileen Love as Principal Boy.
"We usually do a pantomimo, a musical show and three or told four plays a year, she
"In July we are going to do an open-air performance of Much Ado About Nothing in the cloisters of Beaulieu Abbey. That is our first venture into Shakespeare."
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Workers in "Oll town" have their own rifle club arid polling club. Mr Horace Parker, steward at the clubhouse, was formerly chief steward of the Queen Mary. He was a steward at the Yalta conference, and was given a bottle of vodka by Mr Molotov.
JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK
Home
From
The Sea
"But I have a letter bere which suggests the wife is not pressing for
: payment." on with his
"You mea there may be a reconciliation Mr Reece ask- ed hopefully.
OR some time after his marriage came apart, James carried job. But he went about it with leas enthusiasm as a man on his own than he had done as a husband. There seemed less at stake.
When
"
Mr Badger sald with a sigh. "I "No, not that, I'm afraid."
frein
every day for the Chancellor process of "cracking down"
crude oil in
into petrol, took me in the lift to the seventh "floor" of the "cat-eracker."
walked out the As we garaway Jeffers explained to "We are like a bonded ware- me that the first "cat-cracker" laboratory model house," said Mr Reg Young, an
was a small
The Assistant, to the refinery it America.
process is the same ne in the manager, Dr Frank Mayo. "The exactly.
he lost the job it did ho said. "Cat- tax has to be paid before the laboratory," petral can be moved unless crackers went almost straight not seem to matter very much.
In search it is going to another bonded from the laboratory size to this
of simple amuse- tendency to overspend on drink ments, one idle day, James came at week-ends. He has store,"
size," he added.
up to the West End, from his borrowing money parents' home in South London, friends"." and in a bar near Piccadilly
At Fawley's 1,000-acre refinery there are hundreds of miles of pipes to be kept in order. Here two main- tenance men are dismantling a section in the old plant.
EASY MONEY
OOK here,"
think this young man's culties do probably arise the disruption of his matri, mental affairs," he wait on. "He is a Kttle
without adrift.
There's anchorage,
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Mondays, 10 x.m, and 8 p.m.
(India
Thursdays, 13 8.23.-
R.M.).
Fridays, a.m.
Saturdays, G. a.m.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Ħ....
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Canada, 1 plan.. 1
Japan. 6 p.m.
Formoss, 6 p.m.
Thailand, Balaya, Indonesla. Aus- tralia, New Zealand, 0 pm.
** By Surface
Americk, 1 pm.
Indotesca, 2 D.IN
Australis, New Zealand, 8 pjn. Marab, 6 p.m.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28
By Air
Indie, Ceylon, 9 a.m. '
Thailand, Burme, Pakistan, Mid- die East, Africa, Great
Europe, 10
Philippines,137,4m.
Jaban, Noon.
Formosa, 1 p.m.
Britain &
Guam, Hawaii, USA & Canada. 1 p.m.
Formosa. Okinawa, Japan, USA.
Canada, a p
Philippines, N. Borneo, 1 p.m.
By Surface
China, People's Republic, 8.30 am. Macso, 9 am,
Malaya, Burma, India, Noon. Formosa & Canada, 1 p.m. Thailand, 1, p.m. Macao, a pin.
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Orchestra
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Circus, met a man of about his own age, 25, for whom he rapid- ly developed the greatest WHAT do you want to say?" Tax admiration. For this man fold James be was a fool ever to James. "You seem the sert of Örch. 7.4, The Shamshuipo Fire, work again for his living.
person who doesn't honou: his A Progress Report, Interviews with people responsible for finding the obligations."
vietima" and for sanitary conditiona "It was this bloke who showed in the area (Recorded); 8. Echosm Hongkong me the big roll of notes and anid of the Theatres; said James's you don't want to work" Jemes Trolde
Bingors cond
Amold. by Philip "L new trend, and pulled a bed ruefully. Reskon 1 past've hole one Biza
Ahweo (Pimo) (Conurzt Wednesday fat wad of £6 notes from his, I should give
Theatre. ""The Candiant Wife", by Somerset Maugam, pocket. "You don't think I got |
Produced by John Richmond (ABCTE); 10.16, this lot by working, do you? with rolls of notes a wide berth," Tangge-inspired by the loves, and. You want to earn a bit?"
said Mr Reece.
by: the Costillana; 10.30. - One Night Stand 30h Crosby and 'His, Bob put Jaines on probation, cats; 10.59, Weather Report: and whispered to him at some and the young man who had Time Signal. Radio News "Real" (96-
night Muster God Bave, The" Qu the 1130, Close Down.
Into bad ecompany.
gentlerden
He led James to a quiet corner anywhere, you they dont lead times of Rudolf Valentino, pas player
length. Presently, James set off done so well as a salor at sea, corded London "Ralay)} 11:15, G664- to earn himself a wad of folding weet off to make fast to money the easy way.
moorings the probation officer He wandered down the Hay-would provide. Moorings against market, turned into a side-the tricky tides and currents streot, and there saw what he that beset a man in London who was after. A.
thes on his own and inclined to стать with ignition-key in place. The dour drift. to the driving seat was open too.
James slipped into the car, switched on the engine, and drove quietly away.
He drove only to the next street, There, he parked the car by the kerb and climbed out. A prosperous-looking man strolled past.
PLAINCLOTHES CUSTOMER
DSST," said James, who is n lean tax-footer, with medal for gallantry, won in the Navy "Psst, want to buy a
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The passer-by stopped, looked promisingly Interested, "How much?" he asked,
James had forgotten to inquire the current piloo for stolen care of this particular model, "Give 'ten' quid "for It" he said,"
The stranger put, his hand in his pocket But be brought out, instead of a wallet, a business. like-looking notebook. "I'm
police officer," Ko
said. "I'd like a lopk, at the car's
togbook, please
CID
for alich
| James's prospective . customer turned out to be, took him to. the police station, Next morn- at Bow Street, James pleaded guilty to stealing the car," Ho was rumandel: "for" 1 quirits to be made, and for the probailon officer to see him, PAMELOVERSPENDING Ehr
WHEN next James
Al pbrought into the dock, and the police had, declared, ha, had no sprevious", convictions,
|Badger, the pro
wen into the
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