THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 13, 1939
News Snack
CAR-PARK PRESS BUTTON CONTROL
The erection of a push-button car park under- ground, the most up-to-date in the country, is to begin in Cardiff.
It will accommodate 500 cars, and the touch of a button in a control room will bring any requir- ed car on to a rotating platform. It is part of Cardiff Council's £500,000 public halls scheme.
10-SEC. RANGE-FINDER TO
REVOLUTIONISE GUNNERY
The floor will be in several sec- tions, and each one will revolve. They shall know the position of any
A new artillery range-finder car in each section, and by press- which, it is claimed, will in ten- ing a button the floor will revolve seconds calculate within fifty yards the range of an object miles away has been invented by a Swedish engineer.
until the car required by the owner is opposite the entrance. The owner will then be able to drive it into the street up an inclined way. The inventor, Professor Erik The "park," costing £90,000, will Fagerholm, stated in Stockholm that be completed in about nine months. the new range-finder, evolved after
five years of intensive experiment, would shortly be placed world market.
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FED ALLIED ARMIES
The professor claimed that
Sir Thomas Bilbe Robinson, Direc- 10 seconds his invention could train tor of Meat Supplies to the Allied guns on a ship, miles off advancing Armies from 1914-1918, has died, at thirty knots to score a hit with the first salvo.
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YEARS OLD
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aged eighty-five,
at Broadstairs (Kent). Born at Rotherhithe, he went to Australia as a young man. He was Agent-General for Queens- land from 1910 (when he knighted) to 1920.
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PORTERS STILL PREFER TIPS
During excavations at a pit in Eleanor Cross-road, Waltham Gentlemen may prefer blondes, Cross, a child's skull, believed to but porters prefer tips. Yet travel- be thousands of years old, was un- lers will be charged for porters* earthed fourteen feet below ground. services at Paris stations on a re- It was ebony black yet well pre- gular tariff under a new regulation
served.
FIRST COME FIRST SERV- ED. First come, first served is definitely the right motto after the daily nap in the open air at the Croydon creche at South Nor- wood. When, the kiddies wake up
coming into effect next month. Tip- ping is to be abolished and any por- ter accepting a tip will be liable to dismissal. The porters are not pleased!
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55 TONS GOLD FOR LONDON
Bar
New Kind of contents in a new type of kitbag.
'ARPed
This dialogue was heard in Tot- tenham Police Court:
Man: I am putting up air raid shelters for the G.P.O.
Magistrate: You mean the
A.R.P.
Man: No; the G.P.O. Magistrate: Come, come, who pays you?
Man: The A.R.P. Magistrate: I thought so. Man: But I still work for the G.P.O.
Magistrate: Look here, how many people do you work for? Man: Only one, the A.R.P. Magistrate: You said G.P.O. the first time.
Man: Well, it all means the same. I am putting up the shel- ters for the G.P.O. through the A.K.P.