TIMBERS ON TRIAL
At Princes Risborougli, Buckinghamshire, is an elaborate Government laboratory, where 6000 named specimens of woods are stored and tested. Timber arrives there from all parts of the world. For s.even years experts under the Scientific and Industrial Research Department have been trying to prove whether English telegraph poles are as sound as Scandivanian, English pines as Continental spruce. A series of testing machines is turned on to both and their endurance noted. British wood is being proved in many respects as serviceable as anything obtained from the Baltic.
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3480, 16 June 1934, Page 6
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91TIMBERS ON TRIAL Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3480, 16 June 1934, Page 6
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