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Fire

A fire gutted Joseph Johnstones cabinet works in August 1893. The factory had commenced operation 5 years earlier in 1888. It was thought the fire started in a wood store directly above the boiler room. There was a mechanism to release steam sufficient to supress any outbreak of fire. This clearly failed to achieve its key design parameter. 

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