Central Heating
not lie, but after 25 years as a householder in England I find your article under this heading very difficult to believe. Between 1929 and 1954 I occupied, whether by ownership or tenancy, three houses containing a central-heat-ing system, while, in. the establishments of my more opulent friends it was a commonplace amenity. I know all about the e league of fresh-air loyalists from whose hygienic hospitality I have suffered many a virulent cold, but the “Financial Times” correspondent indicates an attitude of mind by the British middle class toward ordinary comfort which is contrary to my experience. From 1939 to 1949 coal and coke were limited by both price and -scarcity—particularly the latter. This led to some hardship for the sybarite, but hotels, offices, cinemas, stores, etc., somehow’ managed to keep to a welcome pitch of regulated warmth. With oil-fired centralheating -within the reach of modest incomes I shall expect to see it shortly in general use.—Yours, etc., I. TREW. March 22, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29162, 24 March 1960, Page 3
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