What is said to be the largest electric si«n in the world, it is claimed, has been erected on two 400 feet chimneys of the German Dye Trust works at Leyerknsen, in the Rhineland. The two chimneys, nearly 200 feet apart, support a massive metallic circle containing, in letters 40 feet high, the name of_ Dye Trust's founder, Bayer, spelt vertically and horizontally to form a cross —the sign appearing on many of the Dye Trust's products. Some 2000 lamps are used for the enclosing circle alone. The sign is visible for many miles, and the mechanics in charge of it move about it in a travelling cage suspended hundreds of feet above the earth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21992, 29 June 1933, Page 14
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