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the floor-boards of the ground floor and within view from the basement throughout most of the route to the termination cable-end box, attached to the oil-filled circuit breaker at the main electrical switchboard in the basement. * (/") Main electrical switchboard. SUMMARY OF INFORMATION SUBMITTED ON THE SEVERAL PARTS (a) Source of Electricity Supply in Lichfield Street Substation : Transformer capacity. Make, rating, and technical data of overhead line protective device and finding following the fire. (6) Overhead Lines : Eoute and area served. (c) Service Entrance Mains. —A description of sort, size, and number of conductors, size of enclosing pipe, and description of appearance after the fire. (d) Service Fuses : Physical details of fuses and report of condition following the fire. The fuse-link portion of one of the fuses for purpose of comparison with similar fuses blown at Addington under controlled conditions, also the fuse-link portion of all the fuses blown under controlled conditions. A treatise upon a method of determining the magnitude of the current which flowed in a circuit immediately prior to the passage of fusing current by means of the appearance of the blown fuse and the application of the method to the blown service fuses from Messrs. J. Ballantyne and Co. ... (e) Electricity Mains Cable : A drawing of the alleged route of the electricity mains cable. A portion of the cable removed from the premises of Messrs. J. Ballantyne. and Co., so prepared as to show constructional details. Samples of steel-tape armouring showing, in some cases, burns believed to be due to electricity. Physical details of cable, description of how it appeared to have been installed, and summary of damage to cable by fire. Physical constants of metal parts of the cable. (/) Main Electrical Switchboard. —A description of inspection of switchboard and •oil-filled circuit breaker and details of tripping tests carried out on the oil-filled circuit breaker at Addington. FINDINGS There is no evidence to show that the supply of electricity, the protective device within the Lichfield Street substation on the circuit to the overhead line or the overhead line was improper so as to cause, due to electricity, fire on the premises of Messrs. J. Ballantyne and Co. There is no evidence to show that, due to electricity, the fire on the premises of Messrs. J. Ballantyne and Co. originated in any of the following electrical parts : Service entrance mains. Service fuses. Mectricity mains cable. Main electrical switchboard. In regard to the service entrance mains, the insulation was burned off the conductors where they projected beyond the indoor and outdoor ends of their enclosing pipe. There was no sign of electrical burning throughout their length, and, for this reason, it is not considered that these service entrance mains caused the fire. All three service fuses were found to be blown. The fuse link which melts when the fuse is referred to as having blown is enclosed in an open-ended asbestos tube. Molten metal could drip out of the end of the fuse when it is being blown, but experience ha s

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