FIRE FIGHTER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 299, 30 April 1941, Page 7

FIRE FIGHTER

VERSATILE APPLIANCE SUBDUES NAZI BOMBS & PESTS Britain's fire fighters have a new appliance for dealing with incendiary bombs which is also being used by their wives for washing windows, by motorists for their ears, and by gardeners for spraj'ing fruit. This now fire fighter, designed, by a Scottish firm, operates on the spray and jet principle. It is the size of a cricket bag and has the great advantage of being easily carried and worked by one person. It can be filled from any tap where the pressure is more than 201b., and throws a let of water 30 feet for five minutes, or a continuous spray for 15 minutes without refilling. In spite of their concentration on equipment for Britain's defence services, the makers have increased their exports, notably of calendered coats, which, being vulcanised after construction, arc absolutely waterproof and stand up equally well to tropical or Arctic conditions. For miners in the South African gokl mines this calendered material is made up in the form of suits in black, white oi khaki, and Scotland is still sending calendered coats to thousands of railway and tramway workers and policemen in South Africa, India, Borneo, Burma and Ceylon.