SUDDEN STOP.
MOTOR-DRIVEN VEHICLES,
DISTANT INFLUENCE,
(Received 10 a.m.)
LONDON, November 22
The "Morning Post's" Paris correspondent says that a few weeks ago German newspapers announced that the Ministry of War in Berlin was experimenting with an invention for bringing aeroplanes and niotor cars to a sudden stop, though a considerable distance away. The Ministry of War has issued orders that the newspapers are not to refer to the matter again.
The newspaper "Liberte" now reveals that a French engineer has evolved a similar invention by means of a system of electric coils, recalling the American electrocutor. The new apparatus can stop motor-propelled vehicles in the street. The engineer asked some friends to stand at a window and tell him what vehicle they wished to have stopped. He then touched a lever, and a taxicab instantly stopped. —A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 23 November 1923, Page 5
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