ARTIFICIAL DAYLIGHT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 16, 20 October 1942, Page 6

ARTIFICIAL DAYLIGHT

IS KEEPING BRITAIN'S OUTPUT UP For the last 12 months of Avar the industries of Britain have used G2 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 onh r 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 advice 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 arc always artificially lit because of the total blackout; and here fluorescent lighting has been dervelopcd. 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 lor the blitzed, streets.

To-day they are sending into thousands of factory canteens and the British Restaurants of the Minis1 I*3" of Food a steady How of. the eciuipmcnt needed for communal catering and cooking.