ROCKET CAR
. , AUSTRALIAN YOUTH’S FATAL ENTHUSIASM. (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, February 5. Fired by a desire to emulate the German experiments in rocket propulsion work with a car, Leslie Aitken (17) was fatally injured by an explosion In a workshop at his home in Preston. He had been some time studying repdrts of oversea research workers, and developing an idea of his own, he had a length of iron piping filled with explosive, and fastened in a vyce. A companion, Marcel Machiahon, who was assisting, left the shop for a few moments, when a violent explosion occurred, and, hurrying back the youth found Aitken unconscious, terribly wounded. Fragments of the iron pipe were scattered all over the shop. The lad died in hospital without regaining consciousness.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18492, 6 February 1930, Page 9
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128ROCKET CAR Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18492, 6 February 1930, Page 9
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