Fire at Lotus Factory
Fire at Lotus Factory
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funkynige

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9,674 posts

296 months

Wednesday 19th March 2003
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From today's Eastern Daily Press:
'Firefighter were called yesterday to the Lotus Cars site at Potash Lane, Hethel, to deal with a fire in a test cell.
The alarm was raised at 7.46am and two crews from Wymondham and one from Hethersett were mobilised. The blaze was brought under control at 8.07am.
Lotus spokesman Alastair Florance said the fire broke out in a research engine that wsa being tested efore going into production. It was confined to the test cell, which is 8ft square, and had not caused an significant damage.'

agent006

12,058 posts

285 months

Wednesday 19th March 2003
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Blimey, they're working hard, testing engines at quarter to eight in the morning

gargamel

15,954 posts

282 months

Wednesday 19th March 2003
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must have been testing a 340r ...



Edited for extra cheese & string

>> Edited by gargamel on Wednesday 19th March 12:33

Captain Muppet

8,540 posts

286 months

Thursday 20th March 2003
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At least we know where they were keeping the accounts for this financial year...

PetrolTed

34,461 posts

324 months

Thursday 20th March 2003
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agent006 said: Blimey, they're working hard, testing engines at quarter to eight in the morning


They've got facilities there which run engines for days at a time, testing them for other manufacturers.