BRITISH OIL ENTERPRISES.
On a site about four miles from a large British port a British oil company is erecting a huge plant for the storage and refining of oil. A new village has been built m the neighbourhood of the plant for the accommodation of the work-people and the staff connected with the enterprise. Between the plant and the port a pipe line has been constructed and the first cargo of oil, brought by a British tank steamer, was recently sent along the pipe. So ambitious is the whole scheme that a statement has gained currency to the effect that the cost was about £8,000,---000. The more accurate figure of £4,000,000 however, indicates well enough the importance of this development of oil supply m Great 'Britain.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9545, 25 June 1921, Page 2
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127BRITISH OIL ENTERPRISES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9545, 25 June 1921, Page 2
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