Word: southend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago Manager Bernard Collins, of Britain's Southend Airport near the mouth of the Thames, was having a drink with Tony Martin, chief radar engineer of Ekco. "If only you boffins,"-said Collins, "would give us a cheap way of locating an aircraft, then we'd be quids in." Martin said he would "look around in the factory junkshop...
...Ekco Approach Aid is now in legal operation at Southend Airport, where it was used successfully during the record fog that plagued Britain early this month. The R.A.F. has ordered 25 sets, and the U.S. armed services are interested...
Wanderer's Return. In Southend, England, Thomas Kennies walked into the local police station with Mildred Browne, struck her in the mouth, knocked her down, told the police clerk: "I brought her here purposely to do it. I want to get back to prison. I'm no good outside...