MYSTERY OF ATTACK
SECRET IN HANGAR LO NDON, Dec?eml|G r 24. An attack by two men on a night watchman at Gravesend Aerodrome yesterday is being investigated by the police. The men are believed by an 1
official of the company concerned to ’nave been trying (o obtain information concerning a now type of wing and fuselage. The night watchman, James Charles Green, 68, of Parrock-street, Gravesend, said lie heard a noise near the hangar of the C.L.W. Aviation Co. ami on investigating saw a. strange man approaching him. The man stiuck at him and they struggled. Green added that he was then attacked by another man. ami both ran away. Sqdn.-Ldr. F. W. H. Lerwill, an official of the C.L.W. Aviation Co., said the new type of wing would be very valuable from a military point of view. There could have been no object, in breaking into the hangar, he added, other than to see the new wing. There was no money or equipment there. To anyone with technical knowledge it would be as valuable merely to see the new wing as to see drawings of it. The wing was shuttered off in a paiticular part of the hangar and the men seem to have broken into that part. The construction is patented in this country so it. would not be of interest, to any manufacturer in Britain."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1936, Page 5
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