TO CLOUDLAND
Aii amazing hollow concrete tower nearly half a mile high, with a spiral motor road leading to a vast superstructure consisting of a garage for 400 cars, a dancing pavilion, a 1.000soat restaurant, sun-parlour, weather office, and finally a tall, slim aerial lighthouse This is the breath-taking project of a famous French constructional engineer, M. Fugcnc Freyssinot. He proposes this skyscraper marvel, which would completely dwarf the present Eiffel Tower, as an attraction for the World Exposition to bo held in Paris in 1937. Visitors would be able to drive their own cars to the clouds for lunch or dinner. 'Tile spiral road would he four miles long and make thirty turns around the tower. It would bo the only means of ascent or descent, for no lifts would be installed.
And M. Frcyssinet is ready to build the towbr up to a height of 10,000 ft, or nearly two miles, if the World Exposition will finance it. < Ho estimates the cost at nearly £500,000. *• Don’t yon think it will bo marvellous on a lint day to jump into a motor car and drive up into the clouds, from where yon will have a magnificent panorama of the entire Paris region ?” ho said.
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Evening Star, Issue 21450, 29 June 1933, Page 11
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205TO CLOUDLAND Evening Star, Issue 21450, 29 June 1933, Page 11
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