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ENGINEERING FEAT

OIL PIPELINE ACROSS THE CHANNEL RUdBY, May 23. One of the outstanding achievements of British engineering during the war is revealed by a congratulatory message from Mr. Churchill to British engineers on "operation Pluto"—which was the transfer of petrol from England to the Continent by a submarine pipeline. British engineers developed a metal pipeline that could be wiound on a drum and unrolled into the sea, with the result that a few weeks after D Day all the fuel required by Field-Marshal Montgomery's forces was being pumped from Britain to where it was required on th» Continent. "Operation Pluto" was a wholly British achievement, and, as Mr. Churchill said in. his message, "a feat of British engineering of which we may well be proud."—'B.O.W.

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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5

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ENGINEERING FEAT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5

ENGINEERING FEAT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5