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DENIS ROOKE
DENIS ROOKE
Pages 356-363
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Sir Denis Rooke sheltered by HRH Prince Philip, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Great Exhibition of 1851; reproduced with the permission of His Royal Highness.
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It made him determined: "I worked like hell." At Westminster City school he made exceptional progress and went on to the Addey and Stanhope School and then to University College London, where he graduated with firstclass honors in mechanical engineering and later did a postgraduate diploma in chemical engineering. When he graduated in 1944 he joined the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME)
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The Permian Basin in which it was located extended under the North Sea toward the United Kingdom, and exploration there was successful. The debate was whether to reform it to town gas or to convert the more than 13 million domestic, commercial, and industrial gas appliances to use the higher calorific value but lower flame speed of natural gas.
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c Denis was much involved with the impact of liquefied m ethane from Algeria, which had started in 1965 and gave the UK gas industry all-important experience for these developments. The construction of a national high-pressure pipeline grid, integrating the previous system of municipal coal gas plants and local gas holders, was a major technical achievement, not least in its remarkable safety record over 40 years.
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Instead of breaking up the industry into separate enterprises, the gas transmission, distribution, and retailing business was turned, by Act of Parliament in 1986, from a publicly owned single monopoly into a single private sector monopoly, British Gas plc. The initial public offering of 135 pence per share valued the company at £5.4 billion, the largest-ever offering in world stock markets at the time.
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His many other professional roles included president of the Institution of Gas Engineers, which awarded him its highest honors, and of the Pipeline Industries Guild, Welding Institute, Association for Science Education, and British Science Association. He received the James Watt International Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and the George E
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In 1949 he married Elizabeth Brenda Evans, a constant companion throughout his life. He is also survived by their daughter Diana.
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