“JOYSTICK” INVENTOR
CLAIM AGAINST BRITAIN. ■ Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. April 17, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, April 16. Esnault Pelterie, inventor of the airplane “joystick” control, known in France as the “broomstick,” failed in his claim for damages against the Avro Company. The court held that the company w r ere merely agents of the British Government and nonsuited Pelterie, on the ground that no foreign government could be. sued in the French courts.
Pelterie, in 1924, obtained £120,000 in similar claims against French airplane companies.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12116, 18 April 1925, Page 6
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