A SMOKELESS FACTORY
£2,000,000 rayon factory is rapidly nearing completion at Red Scar, near Preston, Lancashire. Textile machinery is already being installed by a staff of 300 engineers, and actual production will start goon. Ultimately, between five and six thousand operatives will be employed. A feature of the factory will be t..at even when m full swing and hundreds of tons of coal are being consumed in the boiler-house furnaces, only the faintest wisps of smoke will be visible coming from the two 370-ft. chimneys, for the plant has
been designed to reduce air pollution to the minimum. Smoke which is not consumed in the furnaces passes through a special grit-extract-ing chamber before the colourless fumes remaining are liberated up the two chimneys. Another feature of this smokeless plant is that all the foul air and fumes from the spinning sheds will be used for the creation of more power, being driven by powerful fans to the engine house for the extraction of the oxygen and hydrogen content and used for supplying combustion for the boilers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 3
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176A SMOKELESS FACTORY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 3
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