THE “AUTO-GIRO.”

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1925, Page 1

THE “AUTO-GIRO.”

MADRID, Nov. 13. According to the newspapers, the Spanish engineer Senor .luan La Cicrvn flew 7 miles in 8 minutes yesterday in his “Auto-giro,” a new type of helicopter (an aeroplane that can 11 y straight up and down) ho invented. The machine rose straight up from Getafe Aerodrome and then Hew like an ordinary aeroplane. It made a normal landing.

Burge numbers of airmen and the British military attache watched tile experiments. The “Auto-giro” has 304 sliovol-like propellers, but no wings. It is claimed that the machine i.s neither an aeroplane nor an helicopter. The licit eoptojf distauuo record is field by M. Pescara, who near Paris covered 1,200 yards in Sniin 13 4-ssec.

SHOPPERS’ GARAGE. NEW YORK, November 15. The traffic congestion of New York is so great that it is extremely difficult for those motoring into the city to find a place to leave their ears. One solution of the problem is ottered bv a large department store which to-day advertises that it has bought, a garage where customers can leave thedr cars. When the shopper arrives at the store the driver will be directed to the garage and will be called when the shopper has finished. For those driving their own cars the ship will have drivers to take the ears to and from the garage.