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This contribution is taken from the archives of the McLean Museum Greenock, Inverclyde Council

"the point about the office was its safe, which was about six feet high by six feet wide and four foot deep. We had permission to go into the safe if things got too hot, and before long it got much too hot for comfort. We heard the guns start up, and then there was a glare outside the window - something burning down Baker Street. The three of us squeezed into the safe, and soon after there was a hefty explosion. When we got out to see what had happened the lights had failed and the phone was dead. There didn't seem to be much we could do.
The night shift foreman spent a while trying to pick out which bangs were guns and which were bombs, but either way it seemed we should be a lot better off in the safe, so we got back in again. And then there was an almighty bang that seemed to be right on top of us.
We opened the safe door, and found we had to step up to get into the office. When we'd got in, the safe had been six inches above the level of the floor. The whole thing had dropped a couple of feet with us inside it. A few other things had dropped too; the wall and the windows of the office had disappeared and the whole place was open to the street.
We thought the works had been flattened, but in actual fact they hadn't been hit. It was all done by blast, though it was bad enough for all that. The main trouble was incendiaries. They were falling all over the place. The distillery over the road was well away, and they were falling so thick on the works that we couldn't control them...
Two men weathered it out in the middle of the works hidden in a low-pressure cylinder.

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