ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPON.
MEANS TO STOP FLIGHT.
FRENCH AND GERMAN CLAIMS.
TEST WITH TAXI-CAB.
By Telegraph— Association— Copyright. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 22. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post reports that a few weeks ago German » newspapers announced that the Ministry of War in Berlin was experimenting with an invention for bringing to ,a sudden stop aeroplanes and motorcars at a considerable distance away. The Ministry of War later issued an order that the newspapers were not to refer ta tho matter again. La Liberie now reveals that a French engineer has evolved a similar invention by means of . a system of electric coils, recalling the American apparatus used to electrocute murderers. The new apparatus can stop a motor-propelled vehicle in the street.
• The engineer asked some friends V? stand at a window and nominate the passing vehicle they • wished to have stopped. He then touched a lever, and a taxi-cab instantly stopped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 11
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