To extinguish aeroplane flres at Le Fourget aerodroitie, near Paris, French officials have just placed in service a novel eight-wheeled lire truclc. Metal cylinders containing lire-choking carlyon dioxide gas are stacked on the rcar end of the vehicle and connected to a powerful pumping mcchanism. "When a plane flre breaks out at the airport tho tiuek speeds to tlie seene and pours clouds of thc gas tlirough a chute-like nozzle jutting out in front of the macbine.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 67, 6 April 1937, Page 3
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