RIANT TIMBERS ON TRIAL.
At Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, is an elaborate Government laboratory, where 6000 named specimens of woods are stored and tested. Timber arrives there from all parts of the world. For seven years experts under the Scientific and Industrial Research Department have been trying to prove whether English telegraph poles are as sound as Scandinavian. English pine as Continental spruce. A series of testing machines is turned on to both and their endurance noted. British wood is being proved, in many respecto as serviceable as anything obtained from the Baltic.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 187, 7 May 1934, Page 7
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92RIANT TIMBERS ON TRIAL. Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 187, 7 May 1934, Page 7
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