| Entry Text: | LONGHURST, Henry. Adventure in Oil: The Story of British Petroleum. 286p., illus. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1959.
A company history celebrating the first 50 years. Most of the 40 pages devoted to WWII concentrate on the company's Persian operations, but brief mention is made of the tanker fleet and of the development of PLUTO, the Pipe Line Under The Ocean which supplied the Normandy beachhead. |
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