'Trials are to be made by the Defence authorities of portable wireless sets for the infantry brigades of the Dominion. The instruments are able to send messages over 60 or 60 miles in daylight, and wilfform a valuable asset to the equipment of the Defence Forces. The necessary power is obtained from a small dynamo which is driven by a bicycle arangoment fitted wltlr pedals. One man working these creates sufficient force to run the dynamo at the required number of revolutions to generate the power which in turn works the pending instruments. The whole outfit can he comfortably placed on one horse, and is very quickly dismantled ready for action. The sets are now in wide rise for military purposes at Home and on the Continent.
Motor coal trucks with elevating bodies and delivery chutes have been built for a Winnipeg company to deliver coal at customers’ houses.
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Evening Star, Issue 15136, 18 March 1913, Page 8
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