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BRITON’S INVENTION. BARBED-WIRE CURTAIN. HELD UP BY PARACHUTES. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received August 7, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 6. The Star, referring to Sir Thomas Inskip’s declaration in the House of Commons that Britain had found means of killing air raids, suggests that the invention of Mr Harry Grin-dell-Matthews has been adopted. The invention consists of an apparatus firing rockets carrying parachutes each equipped with numerous strands of nulled wire with fretsaw-like teeth of varying lengths. The parachutes can be released at heights up to 30,000 feet and would form a ’plane-proof curtain, as the sharp wire would cut the wings and entangle the propellers, Mr Matthews says that the apparatus is most mobile and can be used from any vehicle from a battleship to a motor-car. The rockets will take only a few minutes to fire and will reach 30,000 feet in 25 seconds.
Some details of the above invention were published in yesterday’s “Standard,” on page 7.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 9
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165ENDING AIR RAIDS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 9
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