1981.0030
D. reel 18.2 D. container 16.8 Depth 6.5
Fire escape from Clune's Tobacco Factory, Denmark Street, Limerick. Longworth Safety Automatic Fire Escape. Consists of an aluminium? reel around which a rope is wrapped, the rope passing through a circular container within which is a system of pulleys, the ends of the rope having canvas belts which went around a persons body under the arms. The container was attached to the wall by an S-hook. While one person was descending, the other belt ascended, the reel having initially been thrown out. Manufactured by Safety Automatic Fire Escapes Ltd, Fire Engineers, Blackpool, England. Instructions painted on container. British Patent Nos. 273728, 487526; French 835258; South African 337/1938. trades, labour