The court was asked whether a flexible revolving drive shaft was ‘machinery’.
Held: A drive shaft connecting an electric motor to a cutting wheel could itself constitute machinery.
Citations:
[1967] 2 QB 351
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Reilly v National Insurance and Guarantee Corporation Ltd CA 19-Dec-2008
The claimant sold fire extinguishers. Three failed, resulting in damage to the purchaser’s properties. His insurers refused to pay an indemnity saying that the failure was the failure of a piece of machinery (the switchgear) and was not covered by . .
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Contract
Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.279051