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 Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:23 am Post subject: TEL |
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Gil Alexander wrote:
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....and I'd like to report that the only source of TEL (the lead in
100LL) in Ellsemere Port on the River Mersey was still in action about
3 weeks ago. As a kid, I could see the always burning waste gases
flame from the refinery from across the river - it's still burning...
I realized my wife had never been on the "Ferry across the Mersey" -
which now a tourist boat trip around, and the southern end of the
route was by the TEL factory, so I actually got a closer look this
time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyRYFUYg9g We were even on the
same boat as the 1965 clip - the Woodvale, now renamed Snowdrop.
Thanks for the clip!!! When songs had words, melody, and were
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enjoyable! One of my favorites. If the Mersey had been any more narrow
(it seems) they wouldn't have been able to finish the song before the
ferry docked!!! 
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Lead has been extracted from this Cheshire area since Roman times, and
the area along this portion of the River Mersey and Manchester ship
canal to Widnes/Runcorn is one of the centers of the UK chemical
industry - think ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) The chemical
industry is the life blood of this area and is fully unionized.
When I was working as a programmer, I did some work on a 105 MM Howitzer
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powder bag loader in Indiana at the Indiana Army Ammunition plant .....
and the contract was with ICI. Never knew until now what ICI meant!!! =-O
Linn
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