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The Warren Spring Laboratory was established under the control of the UK Department of Science and Industry at Stevenage in 1958/1959, taking over some of the work of the former Fuel Research Station with respect to the synthesis of oil from carbon monoxide and hydrogen and research into atmospheric pollution. It also took over the Fuel Research Station's Scottish branch at Thorntonhall. It was transferred to the Ministry of Technology in 1965, the Department of Trade and Industry in 1970, the Department of Industry in 1974, and the second Department of Trade and Industry in 1983. In its latter years the Laboratory's research covered the bulk handling of powders, pastes and slurries; process control and on-line analytical systems; catalysis; mineral concentration; pyro and hydro-metallurgy; air pollution; oil pollution; and recovery of materials from domestic and industrial wastes. In 1994 the laboratory merged with AEA Technology to form the National Environmental Technology Centre.
Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C865, accessed 27/09/2021. |