LUXURY FLATS
GAS-PROOF SHELTER BUNKS AND RADIO LONDON, Aug. 7. An eight-floored block of luxury flats in Albert road, Regent's Parle, London, is the first building in the country in which the 00-oporal.ion of the Home Office has been secured to provide complete bomb-proof and gas-proof shelter The 250 people who will live in tho flats will be "bio to stay four or five days at a time in tbe 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 gasproof doors, duplicated to provide air locks. When those doors are closed the shelter becomes hermetically scaled tmtil the ventilation apparatus is operated. When this is in action outside air is drawn through protected shafts from points 30ft. above ground, passed through filters and distributing ducts. "Used" air is released outside through valves adjusted to maintain pressure preI venting infiltration. | There will be an independent water r supply of 2COO gallons, sleeping! bunks, sanitary arrangements unconnected with the main drainage. Provision is made for .radio and grr.mophono "distraction."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 12
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187LUXURY FLATS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 12
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