DEALING WITH INCENDIARY BOMBING
USE OF GREY POWDER DEMONSTRATION IN LIVERPOOL [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Feb. 17. Heads of Liverpool’s civil defence services and business firms saw an incendiary bomb extinguished by a grey coloured powder at a demonstration in Liverpool Fire Brigade headquarters. All other known methods have the effect of merely controlling the bomb. A powder of the type used has been used with good effect for three years in large Government factories in Britain and in other parts of the Empire. Officials of the manufacturing firm
poured the line gicy powder on the bomb while it was spurting molten Ifire in all directions. Immediately the I flames changed from a brilliant flash lof white lo t,ie yellow and red of (ordinary fire. Wi'bin five minutes the flames were out.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 43, 20 February 1941, Page 7
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132DEALING WITH INCENDIARY BOMBING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 43, 20 February 1941, Page 7
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