When a pistol was fired in a room full of people at the Savoy Hotel recently there was no panic. In fact, even those within a few feet of the muzzle did not hear the shot. A new form of silencer had been screwed into the gun and this was the method of the inventors used to demonstrate it. The same form of silencer, though larger was demonstrated on a motorcar exhaust. But the most important claim made for the silencer by its inventors is that it will silence pneumatic drills used in road-breaking. If it will do that it will be a boon to the harassed town dweller.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21939, 13 November 1936, Page 7
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