BIGGEST AERIAL MASTS.
The great sections of the new aerial masts for the biggest wireless station in the world at Hillmorton, near Rugby, are now arriving by night at the adjoining station of Kilsby and Crick. These steel sections are so big that there is no room for a train to pass on the adjacent rails, so that they have to be transported when there is no other traffic. The new aerial will be a mile, and a half long and a half mile wide, and will be supported by twelve steel masts weighing 300 tons and 820 feet high, or mora than twice the height of St. Paul's Catherdral (365 feet). Each > mast is fitted with a lift inside capable of carrying four men. It will be the greatest aerial in the world, and this new Imperial wireless station will be capable of communicating with any part of the glob©.
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Shannon News, 22 August 1924, Page 1
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151BIGGEST AERIAL MASTS. Shannon News, 22 August 1924, Page 1
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