OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1929, Page 3

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

ASSISTANCE TO SHIPS. COMPASS BEARING'S ISSUED ; AUTOMATICALLY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 14. Experiments with the “wireless light luu.se” at Orfordness, Suffolk, have /proved so successful in assisting ships chat are out of sigho of land to find their true bearings that it wijl be worked continuously for two months beginning from October 20. This wireless beacon, which is work ed by the Air Ministry and the Board of Trade to assist the shipping and aircraft, lias been particularly useful to the former, since commercial aeroplanes have their own particular systems of obtaining wireless bearings over the cross-Channel routes. The beacon consists of a tower containing an electrically controlled revolving frame aerial, which sends out certain signals to specific points of the compass in such a way chat a pilot picking up the signals can, with a stop-watch, guage his bearings.

INTERNATIONAL MOTOR SHOW. j MANY NEW MODELS. RUGBY, Oct. 14. When the annual International Motor Show, which lasts for nine days,; opens at Olympia, London, on Tliursday, over £1,000,000 worth of next year’s cars will be on view. At least half a dozen countries, in addition to Great Britain, will be represented. Several English factories will show for the first time new models over which they have maintained the greatest secrecy. Many British makers are, in particular, devoting attention to the requirements of overseas markets and several of them, including Morris, Austin, Humber and Singer, have produced cars of world competitive designs and prices, which have already proved extremely attractive to the. overseas agents visiting London .in connection with the show.