RADAR SETS DUMPED
OLD PIT SHAFT FILLED UP LONDON, Dec. 26. Radar sets, as many as 16 lorry loads a day. are being dumped down disused mine shafts in Staffordshire, says a News Chronicle correspondent, writing from Cheadle. People are amazed ’by the convoys which continue to arrive laden with equipment. The story circulated that radio sets were being dumped. Although there are no receiving sets, I learn that not all the equipment dumped is defective, the correspondent reports. Gummed labels on the cartons of some consignments had to be stripped off before they were taken to the dumps. Transport men said that much of the equipment came from warehouses in the. London area. One shaft is on land belonging to a market gardener, Mr Tom Weston. He said that he understood that dumping might go on because there were many mine shafts the authorities wanted to have filled up in this area. The shaft has now been filled to the top and sealed off with concrete. If the undamaged equipment had been sold it would, it is said, have realised thousands of pounds.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26045, 8 January 1946, Page 6
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