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Hydraulic Machinery Fails SYDNEY INCIDENT
(By Telegraph-
SYDNEY, July 8. For the first . time in the record of the head office of the Commonwealth Bank, in Martin Place, Sydney, the gi.ant steel hydraulieally-operated doors would not open the other morning. At one minnte to ten uniformed attendants inside the main Banking chamber ealmly awaited the signal which would open the doors to anotner dav of business. The opening procedure is sirnple. A lever is pulled. That applies the water pressure. The door lifts slightly, permitting a lock to bo reieased. The water pressure is then gradually relaxed : and the door teinks into its underground recess. The signal was given, and the attendants pulled the requisite levers. Nothing happened. Another pull was given. A hurried whisper went round the great chamber. "The wator .pressure is not on. The doors will not open." At five minutes past 10 the Martin Place door operated. The main Pitt street door, however, remained closed, in spite of frantie lever-pulling and whispered consultations between attendants and sub-managers. , An officer was placed outside the closed door to direct customers to the other entrances.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 4
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