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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 December 1928, Page 9

Successful tests have been carried out on Lake Ammer, Bavaria, with a new 'device for ensuring the safety of vessels in foggy weather. Two fingers are suspended over a map, and in response to wireless control continuously indicate the ship’s position. Britain manufactures thousands of millions of needles every year and supplies practically every ' other country in the world, eighty per cent, of the output of Bedditch being exportted. Yet no one has discovered where all the old needles go.