EXPLOSIVE BULLET

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1939, Page 5

EXPLOSIVE BULLET

INVENTION TO BE TESTED. I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, April 17. A new explosive and incendiary bullet. which is claimed to be capable of destroying even the rubber-coaled petrol tanks of the most modern military aeroplane, Ims been invented by Mr. John Pomeroy, of Melbourne, who arrived by the Aorangi on his way to the United States for a series of trials. Mr. Pomeroy won fame during the Great War for his invention of a special bullet for the destruction of Zeppelins. Mr. Pomeroy was born in Invercargill, but to-day was the first time that he had seen New Zealand for 24 years. “There are no more gas-bags, but wo have an aeroplane with a nc-w tank to contend with,” said Mr. Pomeroy. “The tank has a. rubber coating with the result, that, although it has been riddled with ordinary bullets, it. will not lose petrol. “I have .invented a .50 calibre bullet. with which I can blow anything to pieces. It has a fiat trajectory of GOO yards, which means that we can engage an enemy at. about 2000 yards cfliectively. No bullet can do this at present. It is no different from an ordinary bullet to look at, and is sharp pointed. The bullet has an enormous disruptive effect, and really acts like a. shrapnel shell. It explodes on impact.”