Research Work In Air Raid Precautions

Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 7

Research Work In Air Raid Precautions

LONDON, May 11. To supervise and co-ordinate the research work of the Air Raid Precautions Department, the Government has appointed a Civil Defence Research Committee, the personnel of which is as follows:—Dr. E. V. Appleton, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge University; Mr W. F. Baker; Mr J. D. Bernal, Assistant Director of Research in. Crystallography, Cambridge University; Dr. C. G. Darwin, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge; Dr, A. J. S. Pippard, Professor of Civil Engineering, Imperial College, University of London; Mr R. V. Southwell, Professor of Engineering Science, Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford; Major G. I. Taylor, Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society; and Dr. W. N. Thomas, Professor of Engineering, the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire.

The committee will investigate the question of gas, camouflage, shelter, resistance, etc.

The “Daily Telegraph” says ft understands that the Air Raid Precautions Department’s recent tests were highly reassuring. It says that blasts from bombs which were much discussed in the Spanish war were greatly exaggerated. It instances a test in which goats tethered outside a shelter were not affected by a 5001 b bomb which exploded 50 feet away.