, London, Nov. 6.
Air raid precautions accommodation for its staff of 22,000 persons, including a bomb-proof shelter at the centre for essential control services, u blast-proof concrete shelter for 4,000 women members of the staff, und an extensive trench system to shelter male workers, is being completed by the Austin Company at their Longbridge factory, near Birmingham, at a cost of £20,000.
In case of an air raid, only one man would be left in the factory in charge of the boiler house, while from two splinter-proof observation posts on high ground occupants would report by internal telephone to fire-fighting, decontamination and rescue squads and first aid services used in underground shelters.—Wireless through Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.