IGX

The Massawa-Asmara cableway was built by the italians in Eritrea during the colonial period. It connected the port of Massawa with the city of Asmara and ran a distance of some 75 kilometres. At the time it was the longest cableway in the world. It was dismantled during the war in 1941.
Pictures are taken from a brochure printed by the Minister of Italian Africa.

“To protect the precious bulk of Winston Churchill in wartime a special one-man pressure chamber was built for the personal plane which carried him many times across the Atlantic and to Casablanca, Moscow and Yalta. Churchill was warned by his doctors that it was dangerous for a man of his age and physical condition to fly above 8,000 feet. The solution was a pressure chamber complete with ash trays, telephone and an air-circulation system good enough to prevent smoke from the ubiquitous cigar from fogging the atmosphere.”

- LIFE Magazine, 1947

Turdacious wrote: