AERIAL POST.
MAILS BY TORPEDOES
GOST ONLY THREE, FARTIITNGS V V PER POUND.
• PARTS, Jan. 3. \ The Science Academy is studying, a project to use aerial torpedoes to sneed up postal services. The inventors M. Hirschauer, chief engineer of the Government Aeronautic Services, and M Talon, engineer oi the Midi Railways, propose the construction of aerial tubes suspended from pylons containing double tracks over which torpedoes each weighing 2oolbs _and carry!no- 501bs of mails could l,e dii'en at a speed of 275 miles an hour. The inventors estimate that- they Could shoot two tens of mail matter an hour through the tubes at a cost of ;}.d per lb.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 5
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