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1052805 - Bank clerks work by candlelight as London's Electricity is Cut.
Work went on by candlelight in banks, offices, shops and other business establishments when electricity was switched off in London in accordance with the Government's plan for dealing with Britain's fuel crisis. With generating plants' coal stocks desperately low, there is no electricity at all for non-essential industries in London, the Midlands and North West England. Other establishments are switched off between 2 o clock and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The government say the switch off which comes at a time when Britain is striving to increas exports will last until coal supplies interrupted by the severest winter weather for at least 25 years, are restored.
February 10th 1947.
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