FIRE IN ELECTRIC WORKS.
/The branch works of the General Electric Company at West Bromwich were totally destroyed by fire owing to ■the fusing of an electric wire in the enamelling shop. The wire, broke on fusing and fell into a vat containing inflammable liuid used in tube manufacture. Immediately the whole department was a mass of flames, and soon the entire works, which cover an area of about 200 square yards, were ablaze. The flames, fanned by the wind, quickly ignited a stack of 100 tons of coal which was piled in the works yard. White hot girders and roofing material collapsed like matchwood and fell into this furnace., Three hundred men have been thrown out of work.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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119FIRE IN ELECTRIC WORKS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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