MONSTER CLAWS
TO HANDLE AIRSHIPS. [J ;; “til tfj p *JO ••- flJbitod Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, April 29. Two enormous “'claws, capable of doing'the work of ; bne thousands human beings, and "'that with frankprecisiofr,"; (; are now being fftfpared ..-at the; 'Gardington Air 'Station, They afe; -being mounted on a trolley runing oh - concrete-embed-ded' rails. Theih clrtws will be used for handling the airships '“R100” and M R101”. The device moves the airship fibril the sheds ' bven in a stiff wind, whereas 'the airships have hitherto had to wait A UntiT there was an absolute calm, as the five hundred men who are at ‘ present employed cannot drag an airship . from the shed when it is windy. It is also hoped-thfvt.tlie new claws will avert the danger of a vessel •crashing its hull 3#ainst the girders of the shed, as happened to “R 100” last week, thereby!'.;: smashing theelevator and delaying • the airship’s •flight to Canada. > >t«'
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1930, Page 5
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