Neon Radio mast beacon to prevent new air disasters . First under erection at Rugby station - visible in fifty mile radius . A neon danger beacon , built to the order of the Air Ministry is being erected at the Rugby Wireless Station to warn aircraft of the presence of the giant masts . The work was put in hand only a few days before the Imperial Airways Liner flew into the wireless masts at Ruysselede , Belgium and crashed with a loss of ten lives . The Beacon will be visible for a radius of fifty miles . Photo shows ; a view of the neon danger beacon under erection at Rugby Wireless Sation , showing the giant 820 feet high radio masts . 5 January 1934 30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties