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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 304, 8 December 1936, Page 7

Secret Screen To Blow I Up Enemy Tianes INVENTED BY KAIL WAY LOOKING CLERK A screen that may prove to be til- I most effective defensive inetwim against invading aircraft that Britain could employ has been vented —by a i railway booking clerk. It provides ai. impassable curtail, i that will mean annihilatiin to any aeio ■ plane and crew that attempt to pierci j it. j It has nothing to do wiuh rays, mi ; is a screen of high explosive which will ' destroy bombers ami their ■ -“ws. It is the work of Mr G. A. Broom ! field, booking clerk at Virginia Waler j During the war he was ohief inspector i if aircraft at St. Omer, the largest : depot in France, responsible for the | repair of wrecked machines. He used to make new machines Iron j bits and pieces of damaged ones. A pioneer of Hying, lie is a bookin;; j clerk at one of the most beautiful spots I in the country because this vocation ] suits his health. He was an associate j of the late Colonel Cody, and has been responsible for several developments in i connection with aeronautics. Jointly with Mr F. J. Camm Im I brought out the three-wheeled motorcar. lie also produced the Broomfield i “golf” target for marksmen, now j used in the British Army. “I am not at liberty,” he told a | newspaper reporter, “to divulge the , plans 1 have been working on. They i are the subject of exhaustive tests by ] the authorities at the moment. “The country is very busy just now I equipping itself with gas masks. A good thing, but I doubt if it is sufti ciently realised that in the next wai. aerial attacks will be continuous. The ‘all clear’ will be given only at the end of hostilities —bombing will continue night and day. “Defence measures seem to be confined to obsolete anti-aircraft guns and observer corps to warn the approach of enemy aircraft. “It was in WO9 that, along with Cot Cody, I became interested in aeroplanes. The terrible consequences of the military application aircraft decided me to do everything I could tc frustrate it. Ever -ynce the war I have studied the problem. “I have evolved a system of defence which will make it, if not impossible, at any rate extremely difficult for an enemy air squadron to bomb London or any other big city or point of military or munition importance. “The details are a Government secret.”

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