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Royal Canadian Air Force Station, Fingal - Test Headquarters
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- C2 Sh1 B3 F16 2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Creator
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C2 Sh1 B3 F16 2
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1967
- Series
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds - Royal Canadian Air Force Station, Fingal file
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 7.5 x 18 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- Two black and white photographs used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published August 11, 1967 with captions:
- "Site of Testing - This runway at the former RCAF airport at Fingal will soon see use in a study being conducted by the Ontario Department of Highways. Seen running down the middle of the runway is a slotted rail, along which vehicles will be propelled by remote control. Barely visible in the background are a few posts, parts of a guard rail now under construction. The vehicles will strike the guard rail at an acute angle - what happens then is what the department wants to find out".
- "Hangar Full of Cars - One of the five existing hangars at the former RCAF Station Fingal is at present being used by Department of Highways officials as headquarters. Inside the building are 16 late model station wagons. It is believed the vehicles will be used in a scientific study of high speed collisions between automobiles and guard rails in an attempt to make the highway driving safer. The cars will be propelled along a slotted rail by remote control and allowed to collide with a diagonally situated guard rail now under construction on a runway at the abandoned airport".
- Name Access
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Fingal Bombing and Gunnery School
- RCAF Fingal
- Fingal (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Newspapers
- Airports
- Military
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