The company also grew by acquisitions, taking over British electric blanket manufacturer Winterwarm. AWRE's solution was to fit the bomb with an electric blanket. Pardon strangled Anderson with the cord from an electric blanket. Similarly, sleeping with an electric blanket raises the body temperature at night. On arriving at the hospital Hilliard was wrapped in an electric blanket. An electric blanket is a blanket that contains integrated electrical heating wires. In the UK and Commonwealth countries this is called an "electric blanket".