FIRE-FIGHTING MAINS
ADDITIONAL PROTECTION IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 8. To augment the city’s watgr supplies for fire-fighting in an emergency, London is to have two new 24-inch water mains. They are to make available unfiltered water from the Thames and the Grand Union Canal.
One main, drawing 10,000 gallons of water a minute from the Grand Union Canal, is to serve the West End and the other, from the Canal and the Thames, drawing 20,000 ‘gallons a minute, is to serve the city.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1939, Page 6
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86FIRE-FIGHTING MAINS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1939, Page 6
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