AIR RAID PROTECTION
BROADCASTING STATION PRECAUTIONS IN LONDON LONDON, Sept. 12 Provision has been made by the British Broadcasting Corporation to carry on broadcasting even at the height of an air raid. At Broadcasting House it has completed four months' work 011 a scheme by which the basement and gub-basement become a selfcontained and bomb-proof broadcasting centre shut off from the rest of the building. A concert hall will be used as a gasproof chamber. Special deep underground cables have been laid connecting the basement studios with distant transmitters. Structural alterations have strengthened the floor above the basement, while, in the event of an emergency, tho use of the top floor control room will be discontinued. The power plant is situated in the basement, besides ail artesian well, which gives an independent water supply. Thousands of sandbags have already been stored.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 16
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141AIR RAID PROTECTION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 16
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