19-Set Wooden Transit Chest

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Some 20-25 years ago, I helped to unload a (few) container load(s) of WS19 sets in transit chests. I don't know a lot about radio's but they looked like complete sets, ready to use as you describe. They came from Greece and were imported to Holland by a dealer. Back then Gerard Deibel was the specialist working on these sets, I guess he's able to recall what they were exactly.

Back then, I saw so many 19 sets that I lost interest....

[Bruce MacMillan]

A number of years ago there was a fellow in either Belgium or N.L. that was selling about 6 to 8 containers of radio gear. This included US as well as WS19 stuff. I received the inventory list from him and there were about 120 19 sets. They were in this style of box and I think they were Italian but were demilled with a hammer.

Looking at the ebay ad the meter bezel has been broken and there are no photos of the interior. Caveat Emptor!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bruce MacMillan

A number of years ago there was a fellow in either Belgium or N.L. that was selling about 6 to 8 containers of radio gear. This included US as well as WS19 stuff. I received the inventory list from him and there were about 120 19 sets. They were in this style of box and I think they were Italian but were demilled with a hammer.

Bruce,

We're talking about the same shipment of radio gear. It was brought in by the Scorpios company in Beuningen, The Netherlands. It was run by father & son Schneider. They also brought in approx. 80 Jeeps from Greece, plus a few dozen GMCs, Dodges, M8 Armoured and Marmon-Herrington Recce Cars.

I recall a Vickers HMG was uncovered in one of the containers, this was thrown in as a gift from the surplus dealer in Greece. That live HMG without any paperwork was an unpleasant surprise for HM Customs and it gave the recipient a few headaches, but in the end the HMG was demilled and all was sorted officially.

HTH,
Hanno

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[David Dunlop]

On thinking more about these wooden 19-Set Transit Boxes, I think I may have run across a photograph somewhere on the web a time back of a large number of these items stacked up in a warehouse. Some had the fronts open but most were closed. At the time I thought they were probably British and assumed that explained how one had shown up here in Winnipeg.

I think a company called Sabre Industries had been a huge military surplus dealer in town back then and they had been big players in surplus wireless equipment, so figured they were the local source.

I now see why a lot of 19-Set surplus keeps popping up out of Italy.

David

[colin jones]

Not sure if this is of interest to anyone but there is a No19set wooden case on Ebay at the moment Item No 182670371687

[Jordan Baker]

Colin, I believe that was what the original post for this thread was about.

[colin jones]

Oops . I guess you can tell I never looked at the whole thread