EXTINGUISHERS NECESSARY
"Look at this," said Mr. II.: K. Hales, M.P., in an "Evening Isews" of London interview, as he unrolled a five-yard strip of brown paper a yard wide. It was covered with pasled cuttings about accidents in which motor-cars had caught lire. i "I wank it made compulsory," he said, "■ that every car should carry a fire extinguisher. Many injuries and lives would be saved if that were done. "These cuttings represent 15 months' collection. Look at them! Aren't they xlreadfu]'' And I've almost as many more. "When the House -of. Commons reassembles at the end. of October I. intend to raise -tliis matter 'of carrying coinpulsorily a fire -extinguisher. If necessary, I shall try to introduce a private Bill to do it. " '■ "The insurance companies will give a rebate for carrying a lire extinguisher. It would be a good investment in every sense.,., "Oh, yes and I.shall.show' the House this little^.r'cJll of:niin'e, just to driven the point:;iibnie.^ : :V ;' '
."Wheii'-.I ge^onto a thing! keep at it," said Mr..; Hales grimly. .■"I shall keep on at, iliis fire extinguisher proposal." ;■ . ..■■'■'.'■ :..'.. ' . '■■',
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1934, Page 26
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181EXTINGUISHERS NECESSARY Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1934, Page 26
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