YOUR OWN LIFEBOAT.
"Carry your own lifeboat" is the motto of an Italian inventor. G. Piperno, who has visited England with what is probabl ythe most ambitious life-saving appliance on record. When not in i>e the apparatus s packed info what looks like a man's siiit(ii!-c. measuring 24in. by I6 ; n. bv K'n., and weighing 201b. When disaster is imminent the passenger brings the suitcase on <h>ck. breaks the seal, and the apparatus opens out and becom.es -; small boat. If : t ; s necessary to abandon the ship t!:< pi.sscnser steps inte his private boat closes th > ot tier cover and launches his craft by burling him-s-df overboard. Then. a< enrdinc to Mr Piperno. the apparatus rights itself 111 the water, the top cover 's thrown oni-n, end f!ie n cunant finds himself sitting in nn absolutely unsinkable ship
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 203, 25 August 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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138YOUR OWN LIFEBOAT. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 203, 25 August 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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