§ 59. Mr. Thorneasked the Home Secretary whether he can give the House any information in connection with a man who was electrocuted at the Morris Motor Works at Coventry in September; what was the cause of the accident; and whether the statement made by the coroner at the inquest has had the attention of the Home Office?
§ Sir S. HoareI have received full reports on this regrettable accident, which appears to have been due to some unauthorised person inserting a fuse and operating a switch so that some overhead trolley wires, near which the deceased man was working, became live. The coroner is reported to have commented that someone was deliberately withholding information, but, in spite of a very thorough investigation by the Factory Department, it has not so far been possible to obtain any further evidence. The firm are instituting additional precautions to prevent unauthorised actions of this kind.