page_title: John Morris and Sons Salford
section_title: Firesnow
hierarchical_section_title: John Morris and Sons Salford / Inventions / Firesnow
caption_attribution_description: Albert Square, Manchester in 1910
context_page_description: John Morris & Sons Limited of Cross Lane, Salford, Manchester, Lancashire, were manufacturers of all kinds of fire fighting equipment from fire engines, manual then motorised, fire retardant foams, and electrical fire alarms, down to firemen's axes and fire buckets.
  John Morris & Sons Limited is now a dormant subsidiary of Schneider Electric Limited, manufacturers of industrial safety systems.
context_section_description: John Morris (Firesnow) Limited was incorporated in May 1921 to take over the business of fire engineer previously carried on under the name James Morris in Albert Square, Manchester.
  Managing director John Morris junior invented a compound in a froth-forming liquid charged with carbonic acid gas which when sprayed on a fire prevents combustion by excluding oxygen. 
  It was demonstrated to interested parties in May 1920. In 1952 a new Firesnow factory was built in Stockport Cheshire.
  John Morris (Firesnow) Limited 00174760 was liquidated in 1971 and dissolved.
caption: Albert Square 1910
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