29 July 1910: ‘A little protection about the head and shoulders might make all the difference between life and death’
Mr. Rudyard Kipling contributes to this week’s number of “The Car” the foregoing diagrams illustrating an idea of his for a suit of pneumatic armour for the protection of flying men from injury by at any rate slighter falls. “A little protection about the head and shoulders,” he writes, “might make all the difference between life and death at the moment of the smash.”