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THE new Laboratories of the Printing and Allied Trades Research Association were officially opened by H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester on March 9 in the presence of the Advisory Council of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Council and members of the Research Association. The laboratories are situated just off Fleet Street in the centre of London's printing district, and comprise about seven thousand square feet devoted to chemical and physical laboratories, library and offices for the investigation of the major and the day-to-day o problems of the printing, newspaper, ink and paper industries. The basement has been converted into an optics laboratory for colour measurement in connexion with colour printing and the measurement of the opacity of paper, etc. A strong-room in the basement has been converted into a constant humidity laboratory where the temperature and relative humidity are maintained at 65 ° F. and 65 per cent.
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Printing and Allied Trades Research Laboratories. Nature 139, 498–499 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139498c0
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