Tragedy struck on the night of November 29, 1940 when one of the factory’s air raid shelters was hit during an intense bombing raid. Eight people from four families were killed, including four children. Factory staff had to recover the survivors and the dead. It was the worst disaster in our history.
The factory’s general manager wrote: “Our only satisfaction is that we did all that was humanly possible and that, apart from the small boy and he was unconscious, all must have died instantaneously.”