Notwithstanding that the "My-story Towers," the most famous ai which was moored at Shoreham, figured in claim before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventers at Martlett Hovse, Bow Street, their secret is still pre served by the Admiralty.
The Vibrocel Company (Limited) made a claim for an award in respect of an invention used on the Towers in the construction of the huge concrete parte, It was agreed that the hearing should be a public one, but that the purpose for which the Towers were built by the Admiralty should not be divulged. A slip of paper was handed to the Commission stating that purpose.
Mr. Kenneth Swan, for the claimants. said that the invention lay in the method, and mealls whereby a structure of considerable size and weight could be made up quickly of vertical hexagonal cells of reinforced concrete, chanically vibrated on the - spot. The master patent dated from 1910, and during the war the Vibrocel Company pointed out to Lord Kitchener, Lord Fisher, and others the strategical advantages of ing able by their system to build great masses of concrete. Such concrete being arranged on the celluar system could be towed to a position and sunk.
Mr. R. Morjitz, who appeared for the Treasury, said that, from
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