FIRE DEFIED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23333, 29 April 1939, Page 13 (Supplement)

FIRE DEFIED

the Aldenham Aerodrome, England, an old aeroplane no longer wanted was set on fire the other day. People from the Air Ministry and the War Office watched a young man in overalls walk through the flames to fetch and carry away a dummy figure from the blazing cockpit. The rescuer was no fire walker, but the inventor of a new liquid which makes fireproof any cloth soaked in it. He had put on overalls thus treated for his rescue exhibition, and clothed in them came out of the fire unscathed. Overalls are not the only garments which can be made fireproof by the treatment. Mr. Truro, the inventor of the liquid, had walked through a blazing hut int,an ordinary lounge suit, and had come qut as unharmed as if he had been wearing asbestos. Cloth of various kinds, and even flannelette, one of the materials most dangerously susceptible to fire, could not be set on fire even with a blowlamp, when they had been treated. The experiments were of most interest to airmen, whose peril from fire is extreme, insurance companies' representatives were also critical inspectors of the experiments.