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Contents 1 War at night 2 Acronym 3 Units of measurement 4 Extra Information panel

[edit] War at night

In England, the PLUTO pipelines were supplied by a 1,000 mile network
of pipelines built during the war at night to distribute fuel from
ports including Liverpool and Bristol.

Were they built at night or used at night?

Shermozle

• explanation added 80.43.107.36 22:17, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Acronym

Is it really "Pipelines" and "Oceans" or are either singular? Rich Farmbrough 09:23, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Pipeline Under The Ocean is also the second album by New Zealand band Pluto.

[edit] Units of measurement

Some measurements in this article are given as 'Mg/km' and 'Mg'. I assume Mg is meant to be Mega-grammes? It's a very unusual usage - SI unit of mass is the kilogramme (kg).

Yes I also noticed that. There is also an inconsistancy in whether imperial or metric units are given priority. I can understand the use of nautical miles in this case as it is acceptable for use in SI. However the use of inches, long tons and miles in the same article that talks about km and litres as the main unit seems a bit messy. Surely we can stick with SI units here (does anyone actually think in long tons?) Zarboki 17:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Not common usage in the UK. 2240 pounds was the standard ton and the US short ton was not much used. I think Mg may be overly pedantic SI (rather like insisting on quoting lengths in millimeters, e.g 1500mm for a car park barrier). Could easily be quoted as tonnes/kilometer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Esthameian (talk • contribs) 23:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

== Eventual Fate?

• in operation until 1945?
• used in post-war?
• how destroyed?

Afabbro 18:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Extra Information panel

The Wiktionary entries and the images seem relevent. The first page of links for all the others seems a jumble of irrelevant stuff!