NEW TYPES OF HORSESHOE.
One of the* most ancient devices which ha' 3 long served as a significant symbol is threatened with doom by the advance of civilisation. Elaborate ex* feriments are going on in London to pd a type of footgear tor horses which, if successful, will mate the horseshoe as it has been known for 1400 yeara as extinct as the dodo. The present hard, flat pavement*, designed principally to sustain motor traffic, present ft surface on which ordinary horseshoes either bud or cause objectionable, iudentetiouj, ana so the" authorities •'• ace Joining , toe humane societies in trying to devise a new form. None of those $o far tried out bean the slightest resemblance to the old symbol \>f goodlnck.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17106, 30 March 1921, Page 3
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121NEW TYPES OF HORSESHOE. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17106, 30 March 1921, Page 3
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