INTERESTING CLAIM
LIQUID GIVING IMMUNITY FROM PETROL BURNS REMARKABLE RESULTS DEMONSTRATED. INVESTIGATION BY ROYAL AIR FORCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. The R.A.F. is investigating a liquid which, it is claimed, would render airmen immune from petrol burns. A demonstrator applied the liquid to his hands, face and clothing, after which petrol was thrown over him and set alight, but he merely brushed the flames away. Then a suit soaked with petrol was set alight and the flames put out mergly by shaking the suit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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92INTERESTING CLAIM Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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