19 FEBRUARY 1965, Page 9

The setting may be romantic, but the North Wales grid

is a highly advanced and sophisticated technological achievement. Built to operate over long distances and at high pressures, it was the first major gas grid in Britain to use radio telemeter- ing to control supply (you see above the new Telemetery Control Room at Rhyl). It is all part of the new pattern of Britain's gas industry, designed to meet a growing domestic and industrial demand fast, efficiently and fully.