DUKE VISITS DUNTROON

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28131, 21 November 1956, Page 15

DUKE VISITS DUNTROON

Drive In Sports Car (Rec. 11 p.m.) CANBERRA, Nov. 10. Bright sunny weather today apparently persuaded the Duke of Edinburgh to drive his own 100-mile-an-hour sports Lagonda. The Duke had planned to make the drive to the Royal Military College. Duntroon, in a chauffeur-driven car, but a few minutes before leaving Government House he called for his own car. The Duke let the car out to 70 miles an hour on a quiet mile-long semiprivate road leading from Government House, but on the five-mile drive to Duntroon along public roads he slowed down to wave to crowds gathered along the route. At the college the Duke was welcomed by the Minister for the Army (Mr J. O. Cramer), the commandant. Major-General I. R. Campbell, and the commanding officer of the cadets. Colonel F. G. Hassett. He toured the college in a landrover, watching the cadets in training exercises. This afternoon the Duke toured the Australian National University. He was conducted through the school of physical science at the university by Professor Marcus Oliphant. He was shown the huge homopolar generator, which creates the power for the university's cyclo-synchrotron. The Duke laughed when Professor Oliphant invited him to feel the tremendous pull of the magnetic field of the generator on the nails in his shoes.