ST. PAUL’S DOME
THICK WITH LOVING PAIRS LONDON, March 30. A vision of St. Paul’s dome, thick with loving couples like a .pigeon-crowd-ed loft, if gliding becomes popular, was the prophecy of the famous inventor, Thomas Edison, according to Sir Sefton Brancker, director of Civil Aviation, addressing the inaugural meeting of the British Gliding Association in London. , t Sir Sefton himself was of the opinion that gliding would he an excellent education far aviators and predicted the time was not distant when it would be possible to reach London from Edinburgh in a motorless glider. “Then there will he a great rush of Scotsmen to Ixmdon,” he said. , t Sir Sefton Brancker announced that Lord Wakefield, the oil magnate, had donated the association £IOOO.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 15
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