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At the Piquette Ave plant, it was divided into large rooms with a giant gravity sliding steel door in between each room. The doors were held open with common rope. Why? If there was a fire in one room, the rope would burn quickly and the door would glide shut protecting the adjacent rooms. Every wooden stanchion was beveled vertically to reduce their potential to catch fire. Just amazing. This was around 1908.
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Mike
“I wouldn’t want to live under the conditions a person could get used to”. -My paternal grandmother having immigrated to America shortly before WWll.
Last edited by Chocaholic; 01-24-2016 at 05:15 PM..
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