£15,000 AWARD TO INVENTOR
LONDON, May 22. The Royal Commission on Inventions tonight announced an award of £15,000 to Bruno Jablonsky, a naturalised Briton, who came to Britain from Poland in 1937 and made the laminated wood aeroplane propellers which helped to win the Battle of Britain. Jablonsky, who founded the firm of Jablo Propellers, Ltd., came to Britain when Hitler was carrying out his antiJewish campaign. He perfected a plastic wood which replaced the use of metal propellers and enabled the Government to divert the much-needed metal to other purposes. Previously it had been found impossible to produce wooden propellers which would stand the strain of modern high-speed aircraft such as the Spitfire: Mr Jablonsky has been living in retirement for several years. He is married. His hobbies are gardening and experimenting in his private home laboratory.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27048, 25 May 1953, Page 3
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