STEEL VEILS
DEVICE TO PREVENT BLINDNESS TESTED. Thousands of soldiers may be saved from blindness by a steel visor for helmets which has been tested by the B.E.F. in France and by the War Office in England. The inventor is Sir Richard Cruise. London ophthalmic surgeon and eye specialist to Queen Mary, who is carrying on the work he left off at the end of the last war. Twenty-three years ago in France, shocked at the increasing number of casualties who were guided on their sightless way to Blighty trains, he decided that the shrapnel, helmet alone could never give sufficient protection from shell blast and explosions. He experimented and produced a three-inch-deep veil of steel. It was officially adopted and in the last year of the war greatly reduced the number of eye casualties. Now his improved 1940 version of the old visor is undergoing tests. All that can be revealed is that it is made of perforated steel on the “roll-top” desk principle. Soldiers can jerk it down instantly, in the way a woman lowers her veil. There is no interference with sight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1940, Page 3
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185STEEL VEILS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1940, Page 3
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