A.tifICIAL DAYLIGHT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13770, 13 October 1942, Page 7

ARTIFICIAL DAYLIGHT

KEEPING BRITAIN'S OUTPUT UP HUGE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY For the last 12 months of war the industries of Britain have used 62 per cent, more electricity than in the last year of peace. This striking rise in the electricity supplied to British industry as it expands is only one measure of the war service rendered by the country's electrical industry. They have speeded up production through the National Industrial Electric Lighting Service which gives expert advice on factory lighting through a large panel of lighting consultations throughout the country. The work to those factories which are always of the panel is of special usefulness artificially lit because it is of the total black-out, and here fluorescent lighting has been developed to give the workers something nearer to the daylight which they lack. During the air raids the electrical industry improvised with rapid ingenuity, turning its washboilers into tea urns and soup warmers; whipping out, through the British Electrical Development Association, radiators suitable for shelters packed with people; mobilising electric boiling rings for the blitzed streets. To-day they are sending into thousands of factory canteens and the British Restaurants of the Ministry of Food a steady flow of the equipment needed for communal catering and cooking.