POWERFUL EYES FOR DEFENCE.—A scene at the General Electric’s factory (United States) where production is well under way on a 7.777,500dol order for anti-aircraft searchlights. The photograph shows the final test before delivery, to the United States Government. Each light is rated at 800,000,000 candle-power, producing light strong enough for an aviator to read a newspaper in a plane 12 miles distant.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1940, Page 7
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62POWERFUL EYES FOR DEFENCE.—A scene at the General Electric’s factory (United States) where production is well under way on a 7.777,500dol order for anti-aircraft searchlights. The photograph shows the final test before delivery, to the United States Government. Each light is rated at 800,000,000 candle-power, producing light strong enough for an aviator to read a newspaper in a plane 12 miles distant. Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1940, Page 7
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