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HOLBORN EXPLOSION INQUIRY REVELATION,
GAS IN TUNNEL.
London, Jan, 1. Evidence of Post Office experts was taken at the Home Ofco In- quiry into the Bloomsbury and Holborn tunnel explosions.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1929.
a match ?-He, might, although. one of the regulations is "Don't
use a naked light."
He might strike a apark on the iron ladder from the nails in his boots? It is possible.
The iden is that when you Bus- poct that gas is there, the first thing to do is to go down into the gas?In this particular tube we were taking the precaution of making it in good condition.
The precautions involve the go- down of somebody" into the tube before it has been cleared?- Yes"
The first witness was Mr. Role (Thrower) went there to dis- Do you think that wise?-Yes. bert Sinclair, chief inspector of
the Central External Section of Perse It.
the Post Office Engineering De- Surely It was an unfortunate partment.
circumstance that to get the He said that the main tunnel down to this gas-infested place. blower to work man had to go. was constructed about 1866 by The blower is there to clear the company to convey parcels. The
systent was then one of compress-gas, and if you leave the switch ed air. Experienco showed the down there you must send your impossibility of keeping the tunnelman there before it is cleared? afrtight, and it was purchased by Уев,
the G.P.O. In 1921
It was made of east Iron 'plates!
Con) Gas Smell.
an inch thick, id was five feet to put the plug for the blower Asked if it would be possible wide by four feet high.
on the wall of the shaft, so that In the section under Broad-it could be reached from the road street were 26 separate telephone surface, without man going cables; there were also galvanis-down the manhole, Mr. Sinclair ed pteel tubes containing electric answered, "Yos." light and power cables.
There was a switch for lighting the blowing machine used to ven- tilate the tunnel.
Had to go Down.
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He had complained to Holborn Borough Council of the smell in the tube in December 1926. He, asked them to have the Bewer examined.
There was always a smell of Three men-Fisher, Thrower gas in the tunnel, and since 1925) (the man killed in the explosion) he had suspected coal gas; before, and Standley-went, said witness, that there was no smell of coal to the manhole on December 201 для. with their blower to drive of any lend gas that night, be there.
Mr. James Brown. district euperintendent engineer of the London District of the Post Office, then described the conditions in the wrecked tunnel,
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The Attorney General (for the G.P.0.): Suppose there had been a test with a safety lamp, and the nature of the flame showed foul ahr, would the men still have been
The Nose Knows. under the necesalty of using the Dealing with the 1926 incident, blower, and would somebody have when two men were gassed, Mr. had to descend into the subway to turn on the switch?—Yes.
'Mr, Sinclair mail' he thought it would be light enough at the switch for Thrower to see tu at- tach the lead of the blower.
Miller pointed out that although investigations were made with re- peated tests, the workmen were all satisfied that it was not coal
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Mr. Brown: 1 was not satisfied. Mr. Miller (for the Gas Light We never accounted for the gass- and Coke Company). I auggesting of those men. Although the that if he wanted to see he would us leak indicator did not give a make rome sort of artificial light reading, 1 smelt coal gas slightly, in those circumstances at that The analysts ultimately proved time of day and year.
that there was an odour of con): gas.
Witness thought that with the type of plug used he did not think]
that an electric spark could have
been caused.
He could not agree that the
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blower was to remove foul or ex-men, nod that it can detect de analysis and quite harmless from dence seemed to show that the plosive gases. It was to remove grees of concentration which can- the explosive point of view. foul air. If there was any aus-not be detected by any other ins Mr. Brown; I will take your neither safety lamps nor any He agreed that there was no picion. of gas they stopped work trument.
men who went, to the manhole had regulation to prevent workman and took precautions laid from taking matches inte a in the hook, which included the in coul gas can easily be detected coal gas when the gas indicator close at hand, and they could get
word for it. I am not a chemist, other such apparatus. A concentration of one in 50,000 but I know the nose will "detect down
Mr. Brown They have them use of the safety lamps. '.
by the nose, although it is im doce not show it. perceptible Lò
them quite easily, pa uny
hole.
Mr. Miller: So that if Thrower, Mr. Watson (for the L.C.C.): had had difficulty with the plug You are aware that the nose is a he night very well have stuck very delicate scientific instru-
chemical The chairman said that the evid
The inquiry was adjourned.
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