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Picture No 10216664
Date 1958
Description Demonstration of the 'Dracone', Southampton, 1958.
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Photograph of the 'Dracone', a flexible towed trailer for the transport of fluids lighter than water, Southampton, 19th September 1958. Developed in response to the Suez crisis, by the National Research Development Corporation, the 'Dracone' was 100 foot long and made of nylon and synthetic rubber. In this experiment it was carrying 40 tons of paraffin.
Source The Illustrated London News. 1958. bottom left page 531.
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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