Mystery antenna mount

[derk derin]

My god that looks like a complicated antenna mount!
Derk

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by derk derin

My god that looks like a complicated antenna mount!
Derk

It's from the early days of mobile wireless, while they were still working out how to do it. I think this is a modification thrown together to fit a vertical rod aerial instead of the "Roof Aerial" while not modifying the vehicle too much.

Sanity returned after the "Roof Aerial" was abandoned as hopelessly inefficient and far too bloody complicated. It's probably mid-1930's tech, if not earlier.

The replacement was "Aerial Base No.3" which was still top-feed so needed an "Aerial Lead-in No.(whatever)" and then that was modified into "Aerial Lead-in No.16" before being simplified into "Aerial Base No.(20 or 25, I can't remember)".

(I'm collecting the aerial bases as they turn up, but it's slow going. Some of them were _very_ short-run, or in the case of No.19 a single prototype.)

Chris.