From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Cases of carbon monoxide poisoning in a new garage and proposing ventilation solutions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\1\ scan0131 | |
| Date | 10th January 1936 | |
| To EJJ. c. to Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} x1209 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}15/KW.10.1.36. Carbon Monoxide Gas Poisoning. We have had several cases in the new garage where testers have gone off sick with gas poisoning, and medical evidence that two of them developed stomach ulcers from this cause. Unfortunately the new garage has only one third of the door accommodation of the old one, and it is impossible to run the exhaust of cars out of this door when carburetter setting, etc., without blocking the ingress. The weather makes it impossible to do this work outside. When the Sand-Blast Dept. has been vacated, it will be possible to provide better ventilation, but in the meantime, in view of the amount of carburetter work on, we should like consideration to be given to some means of improving the existing conditions. We noticed last time we were in America, that Cadillacs had a large bore pipe running underground, with an extractor plant and a number of flexible hoses connected thereto which could be slipped over exhaust pipes of cars which were being run in the shop and which extracted the fumes so caused and carried them outside the building. This seems to us to be a reasonable proposition, and we shall be glad to know whether something of the sort can be arranged. In our case we might run the pipe overhead to avoid digging up the floor. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||