2-847-614 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

A view along a stretch of the Mersey oil pipeline in rolling countryside, showing the pipeline after the welders have passed but before the joints have been coated. The Mersey oil pipeline was installed in 1967 by Laing Civil Engineering in association with the French companies, Entrepose and Grands Trevaux de Marseille (GTM). It is 88 miles in length and runs from Ellesmere Port to the Kingsbury Oil Terminal serving the Midlands. This photograph was published in November 1967 in the Laing monthly newsletter 'Team Spirit'.