THE AISGILL DISASTER.
ENQUIRY EVIDENCE NEW IMPROVEMENTS TO CARRIAGES. Press Abmj—By Ttolsgrftpb—Copyright Receive J 10 H 5 p.m. London, Sept. 18. Mr Grant, at the Aisgill disaster enquiry stated that mechanical devices were installed in 758 places to prevent signalmen lowering signals wtiile another train was on his section. The directors had set aside a hundred thoasaud as a first instalment towards i stalling the device and for two thousand selected signal boxes where the possibility of i uraan error was most likeiy.
The floors of the new carriage were beiua laid with asbestos and improvements were being sd ed to re uce the risk of telescoping by having collision buffers. Emergency win lows would also be introduced The consensus of opinion of railwaymen favoured gas as an illcmination in carriages
| The dirtctois nad dociriod agaiDst electricity. During thirty-two years only eight accidents -'ad occurred wherain gas had caused fire.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2027, 17 September 1913, Page 5
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150THE AISGILL DISASTER. Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2027, 17 September 1913, Page 5
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