Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 40


     
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     2   Q.   Yes.
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     4   MR. MORRIS:  This tripping out of the RCD was a problem for 10
     5        months or -----
     6        A.  It was about nine or 10 months, that is right.
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     8   Q.   It was a regular problem; it was happening every day?
     9        A.  There would be times when, for instance, you would go a
    10        month without a problem and there will be other days when
    11        you would get a problem Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
    12        then again on Saturday.
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    14   Q.   Right.
    15        A.  So, I mean, there were some days when you did not call
    16        Clayton Construction at all for a month -- they would just
    17        come on their by-weekly sort of visit and change another
    18        part of it -- and there were some weeks when you called
    19        then five, six, seven times.
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    21   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am sorry to intervene yet again, but what
    22        was the longest period of time that the RCD fuse was out?
    23        A.  Was out?
    24
    25   Q.   Before the specialists arrived?
    26        A.  It would not have been longer than overnight.
    27
    28   Q.   Until the next day?
    29        A.  If it went in the morning, you would have an engineer
    30        by mid-day, and if it went late at night you would have an
    31        engineer the following morning.
    32
    33   Q.   Yes.
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    35   MR. MORRIS:  If it happened after 5 o'clock on a Friday then
    36        they would have to come out on the Monday, would they?
    37        A.  No, because they are a 24 hour Company.  Their nearest
    38        branch to us was in Weston-Super-Mare which is about an
    39        hour and 20 minutes drive away.  They are on 24 hour call.
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    41   Q.   So if it happened at 6 o'clock on a day they would come out
    42        the next day?
    43        A.  It would depend on what time they could get there, but
    44        they would almost invariably come out that night.
    45
    46   Q.   You said until the next day if it happened -----
    47        A.  Yes.  What I meant by evening, I was thinking more like
    48        10 o'clock at night.
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    50   Q.   So they were not a 24 hour Company then? 
    51        A.  Yes, they were a 24 hour a day Company, but the idea 
    52        being that if you phoned, what is the point of phoning them 
    53        at 10 o'clock at night when you could phone them at
    54        10 o'clock at night and they would come the following
    55        morning?  They would come at, say, 5 o'clock in the morning
    56        before you opened.
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    58   Q.   So -- I am just trying to understand this -- they did not
    59        get called out every time, because some of the times there
    60        was something wrong with the machine, with the fuse or

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