ANOTHER BULLET-PROOF CUIRASS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVI, Issue 1323, 28 August 1894, Page 5

ANOTHER BULLET-PROOF CUIRASS.

According to a German newspaper, trials have recently taken place at the Bavaria Circus in Munich of a new bullet-proof cuirass invented by a Hamburg armourer, Wilhelm Weber. The trials took place before Prince Leopold and Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria, and appear to have been eminently successful. The cuirass, which is covered with blue military cloth, was on the first occasion fired at with a service rifle at a distance of ten paces, and the bullets, it is stated, were shattered into small fragments, which lost themselves in the material, whatever it may be, of which the cuirass is made. On tire second occasion Herr Reimers, who conducted the trials on behalf of the inventor, put on the cuirass, and three shots were fired at him without producing the slightest effect, or causing even any apparent concussion. A few splinters of the steel coating of the bullets and a lead fragment about the size of a pea were subsequently extracted with the help of pincers from the point of impact of the bullets. The cuirass weighs Ulb, but the inventor states that it can be safely reduced to 81b. Priuce Leopold declared himself highly satisfied with the results, and expressed his opinion that the invention, if sustained by further experi. ments, might be of great value to the army