BULLET TO PENETRATE STEEL

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 22 February 1936, Page 15

BULLET TO PENETRATE STEEL

AUSTRALIAN INVENTOR'S

CLAIM

SYDNEY, February 14.

Henry W. Haydon, a 28-year-old motor mechanic, claims that he has invented a bullet which will penetrate steel-plate and other substances further than any other bullet yet made. Haydon, who is to place his invention before Defence Department officials in Sydney next week, has been in touch with the department, offering his plans, for some time. He says that in tests the bullet penetrated steel plate three-eighths of an inch thick, and he is confident that he has produced a bullet that is an advance on* any nickel-jacketed bullet at present in use.

Haydon says the bullet gives twice the range of the ordinary bullet, and can be made for rifles of any calibre. He also claims that his bullet, even if it strikes at an angle of 45 degrees, will not glance off, but will penetrate. He says that he has been working on his invention tor about five years. The secret in in the propelling explosive, and the formation of the shell. A member of a family associated with mining for many years, Haydon lias had a good deal of experience with explosives—sp much that he carries pieces of detonators in his body since a premature explosion during his experiments. He is a good rifleman. Most of his experiments have been carried out in a blacksmith's shop,