WORKING ON LIVE WIRES.—-A new kind of safety suit, made from stainlesssteel wire mesh woven into cotton doth, enables electricity transmission engineers in Britain to work on overhead cables that carry live current at 400,000 volts. The suit is expected to save between £1000 and £10,000 a day, the cost of disconnecting a supergrid line for repairs or maintenance work. The suit is completely effective, as this photograph shows. The engineer is sitting on the “hot” line as his working trolley is hoisted up to him on plastic chains.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32120, 16 October 1969, Page 6
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89WORKING ON LIVE WIRES.—-A new kind of safety suit, made from stainlesssteel wire mesh woven into cotton doth, enables electricity transmission engineers in Britain to work on overhead cables that carry live current at 400,000 volts. The suit is expected to save between £1000 and £10,000 a day, the cost of disconnecting a supergrid line for repairs or maintenance work. The suit is completely effective, as this photograph shows. The engineer is sitting on the “hot” line as his working trolley is hoisted up to him on plastic chains. Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32120, 16 October 1969, Page 6
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