STRIKING RISE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8835, 21 October 1942, Page 3

STRIKING RISE

ELECTRICITY USED IN BRITAIN

DEMAND FOR WAR INDUSTRIES

For Hie la-st 12 months of the war Ihe industries of Britain have used 62 per cent, more electricity than in the last year of peace. This striking rise in the electricity supplied to British industry .as it expands is only one measure of the war service rendered by the country’s electrical industry. They have speeded up production through the National Industrial Electric Lighting Service which gives expert advico on factory lighting through a large panel of lighting consultants throughout the country. The work of the panel is of special usefulness to those factories which are always artificially lit because of the total blackout; and hero fluorescent lighting has been developed to give the workers something nearer to the daylight which they lack. During the air raids the electrical industry improvised with rapid ingenuity, turning its washboilers into tea urns and soup warmers; whipping out, through the British Electrical Development Association, radiators suitable for shelters packed with people; mobilising electric boiling rings for the blitzed streets. To-day they are sending into thousands of factory canteens and the British restaurants of the Ministry of Food' a steady flow of the equipment needed for communal catering and cooking.