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?
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25 Q. Before the specialists arrived?
26 A. It would not have been longer than overnight.
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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.
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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.
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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
