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Description: | The fire started in a wooden shed behind Mr. C. Palmer's printing shop on Slough High Street. Sydney Shephard, an engineer from Wellington Street, had spent three years designing, building and patenting a steam-powered motor car. He was in the final stages of development and had meetings the following week with potential investors. Shephard, assisted by Mr. Shand, was giving the car a final test, when the metal tubing which conveyed the oil from the tank to the burner must have burst. The explosion destroyed Mr. Butler's stables, Mr F. Witney's carpentry shop and Mr Lidstone's stables and granary, while E. D. Rabbitt's shop was set alight. Unfortunately, the car and carpentry shop were uninsured. Lidstone had his insurance application refused, while Shephard had a more woeful story. He had his insurance approved, however he was due to meet the insurance agent the night before but could not make the meeting. The postal order to pay for it was sitting in a coat pocket that perished in the fire. See the Slough Observer article dated 28/8/1908.
The postcard was produced for "H. G. Stone, Photographer, Slough". | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Sydney Shephard ; F. Witney ; Lidstone ; E. D. Rabbitt ; Mr. Shand ; Cars ; Shops ; Fire-fighting ; | Temporal: | start=1908-01-01; end=1908-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | H. G. Stone | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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