Fire tests with glass : a test with three window openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].

British Fire Prevention Committee.

Date:: 1914

Credit: Fire tests with glass : a test with three window openings filled in with "Wired Glass" by Messrs. Pilkington Brothers, Limited, St. Helens the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$TICMlMCKATrUKS, Tlie following lempeniliires wc-rt- recorded on the thermometers hanging 6in. (0-lo'2ni.) in front of cacli opening on the outside in ]iassage: Ti>ne P.M. OpniiiiK \o. 4. Oppning \o. 5. Opf-nifig ■\o. 6. Min'-. I-alir. CViil. I'.ihr. Ont. I-ahr. Out. 3-0 62 16-6 62 i6-6 62 16-6 0 3.5 04 34-4 8f) 30*0 100 37-7 5 3.10 lOI .38-3 'M 34-4 108 42-2 10 3-15 107 41 *6 U>5 40-5 118 47-7 «5 3-20 112 44*4 I 10 43'3 I2I 49*4 20 3 165 73-8 150 85-5 01-I 4} 3-30 208 <j7-7 104 00-0 - • 30 3-35 —• — 188 86-6 — • — 35 3-40 — * — 180 82-2 — 40 3-45 — • — 186 85-5 —• —• 45 3-50 — * — 180 82-2 — • — 50 3-55 — • — 180 822 —• — 55 4.0 — • — 202 94-4 —• — 60 4-5 — • — 438 114-4 —* — 65 4‘IO — * — 458 I4J-5 —* — 70 4.15 —* — 270 132-2 —• — 75 4.20 —* — 310 154*4 —• — 80 425 •—* T 310 154*4 —• — 85 4-30 315 1574 90 * The thermometers had reached their maximum reading and were removed. GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS. The test was carried out according to the procedure laid down by the Executive for investigations of this description, and was conducted by a Sub-Committee comprising: Ellis Marsland (District Surveyor) {Gen. Honorary Secretary), Directing Member. Percy Collins, J.P., F.S.S., Deputy Directing Member. Bertram Chatterton, A.M.Inst.C.E. (Insurance Survej-or), Deputy Directing Member. J. Herbert Dyer. R. W. Henderson, J.P., IM.D. (Hon. Chief Officer, Rickmansworth Fire Brigade). H. G. Marshallsay (Chief Officer, Aldershot Fire Brigade). A. E. Nichols, M.Inst.C.E. (Borough Surve^-or, Folkestone). Stanley W. Thorpe (Chief Officer, Kodak Fire Brigade). A. H. Lister (Engineer to the Committee) assisted the Sub- Committee. The Council was represented for the testing operations of July 22nd, 1914, by; The Right Hon. The Earl of Londesborough, K.C.V.O. The Executive was represented for the testing operations of July 22nd, 1914, by: Edwin O. Sachs, F.R.S.Ed., Chairman. Oswald C. Wylson, F.R.I.B.A. The Committee’s Hon. Medical Officer, Major R. J. Maitland-Coffin, F.R.C.P., was in attendance on July 22nd, 1914, assisted by a sergeant of the St John’s Ambulance Association.$