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NEW FLATS IN LONDON ROOM FOR 250 PEOPLE [FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT] LONDON, August 15 An eight-floored block of luxury flats in Regent's Park, London, is the first building in England in which the cooperation of the Home Office has been secured to provide complete bomb-proof and gas-proof shelter. The 250 people who will live in the llats will be able to stay four or five days at a time in the shelter, which is below ground level, and is built of concrete, reinforced with steel, and lined with asphalt as a precaution against flooding. There are two entrances, each with gas-proof doors, duplicated to provide air locks. When these doors are closed the shelter becomes hermetically sealed until the ventilation apparatus is operated. When this is in action outside air is drawn through protected shafts from points .'SO feet above ground and passed through filters and distribute ing ducts. "Used" air is released outside through valves adjusted to maintain pressure preventing infiltration.
There will be an independent water supply of 2000 gallons, sleeping bunks and sanitary arrangements unconnected with the main drainage. Provision is made for radio and gramophono "distraction."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22518, 8 September 1936, Page 12
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193GAS-PROOF SHELTER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22518, 8 September 1936, Page 12
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