Hi, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mike wilson" > Subject: Re: HNY > > > Unlike a local "university" chemical engineering department, that > > managed to construct a fully working petroleum catalytic cracker (scaled > > down but still about five storeys high) in the middle of the city, only > > thinking to inform the Health and Safety Executive when it invited > > people to the official opening. The safety official saw it run once and > > promptly placed a prohibition order on it. About �500,000 down the > > drain in 1979. > > We have one of those things not far from where I live, just on the north > east edge of the city. > I don't think ours is a mini though, it's pretty tall.
Shell recently imported a new cracker vessel to the Stanlow refinery on Merseyside. It was the biggest object ever to have travelled on British roads. Imported from Japan.... Whilst being installed, the biggest crane in the UK, being used to lift it in place, fell over due to high winds. Crane was imported from Holland.... The oil is ours 8-) mike
