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H.M. GOVERNMENT, through the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, has decided to establish comprehensive Fire Research Organisation, jointly with the Fire Offices' Committee. A Fire Research Board has been appointed jointly by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Fire Offices' Committee. The members of the Board are: Lord Falmouth (chairman), head of Fire Research (âFâ) Division, formerly Ministry of Home Security, now D.S.I.R., past member of the Advisory Council and Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory, and of the Fuel Research Board; Dr. S. F. Barclay, head of the Research Department of Mather and Platt, Ltd., manufacturers of fire-fighting equipment; Mr. J. W. Berry, general manager, Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., member of the Fire Offices' Committee; Mr. E. L. Bird, editor of the Journal of the Royal Institution of British Architects, member of the Joint Committee of the Building Research Station and the Fire Offices' Committee on the Fire Grading of Buildings; Sir George Burt, chairman, John Mowlem and Co., Ltd., chairman of the Building Research Board and of the Interdepartmental Committee on House Construction; Dr. S. F. Dorey, chief engineer surveyor, Lloyd's Register of Shipping; Dr. P. Dunsheath, chief engineer and director, Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd.; Mr. A. J. Makins, general manager, Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd., member of Fire Offices' Committee; Air Commodore G. Powell, managing director, British Aviation Services, Ltd.; Mr. A. S. Pratten, chief officer, London Salvage Corps; Sir William Stanier, scientific adviser, Ministry of Supply, and lately scientific adviser, Ministry of Production, and chief mechanical engineer, L.M.S. Railway; Prof. D. T. A. Townend, director of the British Coal Utilisation Research Association; Mr. W. H. Tuckey, director of the Fire Offices' Committee Fire Protection Association. The members of the Board serve in their personal capacity and not as representatives of any organisation to which they may happen to belong.
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Fire Research in Great Britain. Nature 158, 939 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158939b0
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