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The museum displays a model of the Topsoe reforming plant, named after it's designer Halder Topsoe of Copenhagen, which was built at Northampton in 1966 and produced gas for the first time in January 1967.
The model, made to assist construction work and to train plant operatives, is of one of the four streams which made up the total works. Each stream was capable of producing up to 25 million cu. feet of gas a day.The works was the first in the world to use computer controls for gas making and it was the first plant in the East Midlands Region to have VHF radio communications between plant engineers and the control room. The plant closed down in 1973 after 7 years of operation after the whole of the East Midlands Region had been converted to natural gas. |