Radar Vehicles

[Noel Burgess]

Royal Air Force radar/radio (ground) has a quite complicated naming system:
First there is AMES - Air Ministry Experimental Station
Each type of radar has an AMES number
Each radar station or mobile unit has its own AMES number based on the type number
For example - Oboe as a system was known as AMES 9400
Mobile Oboe units/trains were AMES 9441; AMES 9442 Etc.

Then each vehicle had a RVT number - even GS lorries (tenders to the RAF) if they were attached to a radar/radio unit - I suspect that the RVT number sometimes related to the specific type of unit it was attached to so the same vehicle/equipment combination may have more than one RVT number.[I know of 2 RVT numbers relating to a 20KVa generator on Austin K6]

At least that is my current understanding If anyone knows otherwise please correct me.

Cheers
Noel

[Noel Burgess]

Here's another one just to keep things going - a type 15 radar being errected. It is part of a MONAB base.
Picture from this site

[Les Freathy]

Not a radar vehicle but a couple of interesting trailers, they should fit in here OK

[alamotex]

Originally Posted by Les Freathy

Not a radar vehicle but a couple of interesting trailers, they should fit in here OK

If that is not a radar trailer ,what is it ? Maybe a jamming device ? The side by side parabolic antenna dishes suggest a near micro wave frequency with a wave length somewhat longer than 10 cm.

[Bob Carriere]

.... the pictures posted by Les...... are very similar/same as pictures I have seen for sale by THE book dealer.... they were part of his 8 1/2 by 11 sets of British equipment...... we left them behind because they were not CMP related.....

Bob C

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

.... the pictures posted by Les...... are very similar/same as pictures I have seen for sale by THE book dealer.... they were part of his 8 1/2 by 11 sets of British equipment...... we left them behind because they were not CMP related.....

Bob C

I agree about them being at least similar to the photos seen, but they don't look to show a GL no3 Mk3 ? (C) trailer (discussed in another thread today).
Grant

[Noel Burgess]

Les' pictures are of Wireless set No10 - a 10 channel microwave set used at Army/Army Group level in NW Europe. I'm sure these were covered in MLU a few years ago
Noel