DEFENCE EQUIPMENT
PARADE IN WELLINGTON [by tei,ec;raph—press association] WELLINGTON, Friday A parade of anti-aircraft and other defence equipment was held in Wellington this afternoon, and attracted considerable attention. Two three-inch anti-aircraft guns, mounted on trailers and drawn hv six-wheeled lorries, occupied a prominent place in the procession. Thej' were followed by two sixwheeled searchlight lorries, eneh equipped with lights and generators. Two exhibits of particular interest in the procession were a "gangster" machine-gunner on a motor-cycle specially equipped by the Defence Department to carry quick-firing guns, and a niotorised Vickers machine-gun carrier of a type also specially developed by the department.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 14
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101DEFENCE EQUIPMENT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 14
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