Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

The scene of a fire was visited on the 5th November, 1956 in the company of Mr. S.C.C. Bate of the Building Research Station. The visit was arranged by John Laing's Research Laboratories at Boreham Wood. The factory building had been recently constructed by John Laing and was partly occupied at the time of the occurrence. The occupiers, as the name implies, are manufacturers of goods for the dental trade and store a fair amount of combustible material such as cardboard boxes and acrylic powder on the premises. The fire, which occurred on the 31st October at 12.49p.m., was attended by the Surrey Fire Brigade, Reigate, and was under "control" in half-an-hour.