WIRELESS INDUSTRY

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 253, 20 September 1930, Page 9

WIRELESS INDUSTRY

NOVEL DISPLAYS: AT OLYMPIA. APPARATUS IN POLICE HELMET. AID IN TRACKING CRIMINALS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 20, 11 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 19. A wireless set fitted to a London policeman’s helmet is the most novel display at the wireless exhibition at Olympia, where amazing advances in the industry are revealed. , The cone-sliaped back of the London policeman’s helmet provides an ideal loud speaker.' The tiny batteries, aerials and two valves and other component parts weight a few ounces and are entirely concealed in the helmet. Within eight miles of the a police station an officer can pick up messages, flashed about motor bandits. BOOM IN INDUSTRY. NOT AFFECTED BY TRADE DEPRESSION. (British Official Wireless.) Received September 20, 11.0 a.m. . RUGBY, Sept. 19. The Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr J. H. Thomas, in a broadcast speech at the opening of the National Radio Exhibition, which began at Olympia, London, to-day, that the wireless industry had been virtually unaffected by the present world-wide trade depression, and British radio manufacturers were now constructing six new factories, which would, cover 200,000 square feet. There were no unemployed in the wireless trade, which was steadily absorbing unskilled labour. The boom had had a far-reaching effect on other industries. This- year’s exhibition is twice as large as that of last year, and shows remarkable advances in efficiency and econonty.