Flaming Clothes

31st January 1953: A controlled test reveals the frightening speed with which clothes can catch fire. After only twenty seconds of contact with an electric bar heater, a dresshas become a ball of flame that would easily prove fatal to the wearer. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6394 - 10 Seconds Can Mar A Life - pub. 1953 (Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
31st January 1953: A controlled test reveals the frightening speed with which clothes can catch fire. After only twenty seconds of contact with an electric bar heater, a dresshas become a ball of flame that would easily prove fatal to the wearer. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6394 - 10 Seconds Can Mar A Life - pub. 1953 (Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Credit:
John Chillingworth / Stringer
Editorial #:
3366528
Collection:
Picture Post
Date created:
31 January, 1953
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Source:
Picture Post
Barcode:
HQ2261
Object name:
97q/39/hepp/8314/09
Max file size:
3091 x 3130 px (26.17 x 26.50 cm) - 300 dpi - 2 MB