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EXPERIMENTS WITH RADIONEW ZEALANDER’S SUCCESSESSPECIAL LOW RADIATIONEQUIPMENTAfter conducting tests with special low radiation radio equipment on a voyage from the United Statesto New Zealand Mr K. H. Scott of* *Scott Radio College Chicago is at present preparing reports on the results obtained. Mr Scott, a former» •»New Zealander is chief executive'iof the company and is combining his- experiments with a rest trip during which he is visiting relativesw, MlilV U i.v A-in Nelson.While serving with an Australian motor transport company in France in the last war Mr Scott invented a compact piece of apparatus for quickly locating trouble in automobile engines. This he offered to theBritish Government. Experts admitted that it was a valuable devicebut as it would cost about X*2l) 000’to build enough of the instruments to handle ail the motor transportvehicles in the British Army, theyreluctantly felt they would just have to “try to get. along without It.” Subsequently it took the UnitedStates Army just ten days4 to decide that they wanted the invention and it was adopted as standard equipment for all United Stales tank, tractor and motor transport. For his invention Mr Scott received32 000 dollars.(
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Whakatane Bay of Plenty Beancon
Whakatane, North Island, NZ
Fri, Jan 26, 1945
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