FINAL WARNING
(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) EDLINGTON (North England), August 12. Part of Britain’s early warning system for a nuclear attack is screwed on the wall over the bar in Bert Fewkes’s village tavern in Edlington. If it starts bleeping it means there are four minutes time enough to pull a couple of pints of beer —before atomic war spoils the peace of the private bar in the White Greyhound. Bert, aged 56, eyed the little grey box and told a reporter:
“I have been told that if there is a nuclear attack It will give out a series of beeps, and a siren will wail. Then we know we have just four minutes to run for cover.” Other parts of Britain are to get the little grey boxes, part of a Government plan to give everyone a four-minute warning.
Mostly they will go to police and fire stations, post offices and shops—but public houses get them in scattered communities.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30828, 13 August 1965, Page 11
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