There were gales across Manchester causing many accidents.
The most serious was at Ardwick Green where a large hoarding at the corner of Brunswick St blew down and killed a Levenshulme man, injuring two others.
The electric tram wires were brought down on Barlow Moor Road after a tree was brought down in the winds.
Along the Flyde coast the storm was reckoned to be the worse for thirty years with winds reaching 80mph and bringing serious flooding to parts of the coast.
Lancashire’s leaders of commerce met in Manchester Town Hall with Lord Moulton telling them it was his opinion that we are at a crisis of national fate given the cotton industries reliance on German aniline dyes.
England consumed £2m of the the dyes and was barely producing a tenth of that need within the UK.
The Englishman, he added will not prepare himself by intellectual work for the task that he has to do while german progress was due to the willingness of the people of that country to take the intellectual study necessary to master the new science.
There were, it was stated at the police court, a proliferation of illegal gambling machines in Manchester as the owner of a tobacco and sweet shop in Hyde Road was prosecuted.
“You put a penny in the slot pull down the trigger and let it go sharply the Lenny is then thrown up and falls into one of five compartments –the coin is returned if it goes into one of two compartments and if it drips into the centre compartment the player gets a check worth anything from 2d to a shilling”
In his defence, the shopkeeper said that since war broke out we have done badly nearly every other shop in the district has a similar machine and I thought I could do a little more business with it
