UNDERGROUND CAR PARKS
Underground car parks' that"make1 • profit in peace: and save lives in war are a hew air-raid precautions ; idea. The plan has been evolved by* a grouip of architects > and engineers and; calls for a new way of parking cars. The British Ministry of Transport has * ailready approved the system of mechanisation as' open for a grant from the Ministry of Health to local authorities. The plans provide for the sinking of the car park either 50 feet below the surface, or at a depth of only 15 <fefet, according to local conditions/ In the case of. the shallow car park it would be buried under three feet of earth. Under that would be a "buster'v slab of specially reinforced ■ concrete, designed to burst the bomb,' divided from another four feet of reinforced concrete by a shock-absorbing pad of 1 sand or rubble.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 3, 4 July 1939, Page 10
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145UNDERGROUND CAR PARKS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 3, 4 July 1939, Page 10
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