TOMBSTONE KIT
S.A. Engineer’s Invention
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, August 20. The world’* first do-it-yourself tombstone kit is on sale in South Africa, says the “Guardian.’' Selling for £7 10s. the kit is expected to upset traditional monumental masons, whose figures usually start at 10 times this figure. Consisting of fully interlocking paving stones, headstone and plinth, and a border. the kit can be assembled by an unskilled man in ’ less than an hour, according, to its Wventor. Mr Kensleigh Walter, a Johannesburg civil engineer.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29908, 23 August 1962, Page 17
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85TOMBSTONE KIT Press, Volume CI, Issue 29908, 23 August 1962, Page 17
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