Talk:Exolum Pipeline System

removed bit
The GPSS is run to This task includes the maximum development of private sector usage of the GPSS, provided this does not impinge upon its primary purpose of supplying the required fuel for defence purposes and does not require capital investment from public funds.

I'm sure this would make sense, but a bit is missing. Rich  Farmbrough 22:36, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Claimed Night-time Construction of Wartime Pipelines
In both this entry and the one for ‘Operation PLUTO’ it is claimed that the wartime GPSS pipelines were only constructed at night-time, although in neither case was any evidence provided. I have removed this claim for the following reasons. 1.	There is no mention of this in the primary sources for the construction of the GPSS such as the Official History, A.L.Adams paper (Adams was involved as an engineer in the construction of the GPSS) and ‘Petroleum at War’. There is also pictorial evidence in ‘Petroleum at War’ of pipelines being constructed in daylight. Additionally there is no mention of wartime night-time construction of GPSS pipelines in the book ’Fuelling the Wars’. This book, already referenced is, as far as I am aware, the only book written on the history of the GPSS. 2.	Whether or not a pipeline was constructed during day or night, its route would be very obvious from the air. However, given that the pipelines were buried with 1.2 to 1,5 metres of soil above them, they would have been extremely difficult to damage by bombing. A rail line would be a far more inviting target and more oil was transported by rail than by pipeline during the war. 3.	The construction of the first pipeline was not started until 1941, after the Luftwaffe had lost the Battle of Britain. Workmen constructing the pipeline would have made no more inviting target than thousands of others all over Britain during the War. 4.	As a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years experience of working on pipelines, trying to construct a pipeline at night would have been totally impracticable. During the winter of 1938/39 construction of protected storage depots did continue at night but floodlighting was brought in to enable this to happen. Timofacleah (talk) 15:59, 21 June 2017 (UTC)