POWERFUL LIGHT.
BEAM TO PROTECT ’PLANES
USE IN EVENT OF WAR,
Received December 4, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 3
A searchlight equipped with 300 small mirrors, throwing a 3000 candle power beam in the form of a pattern 16,000 feet skyward, enabling a raiding’s aeroplane’s position to be plotted in the air in the same manner as artillery targets are plotted on map squares, has been successfully tested by the War Office.
It is the world’s 'most powerful searchlight. The beam’s power can be gathered from the fact that at a range of five miles a newspaper can be read in its light.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 7
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103POWERFUL LIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 7
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