Radar Vehicles

[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

[alamotex]

You are correct Noel ..It is a Wireless Set No 10

http://www.wftw.nl/wireless/ws10a.jpg

The early versions of GEE and OBOE, which should properly be classified as Aids to Navigation, were mounted in trailers that were available at the time. OBOE in a trailer originally manufactured for the AA radar No 3 Mk 2 is not surprising. What is surprising is that the boys in blue have cornered the market on WW II radar. The army radar personnel and equipment have been marginalised to the point that no one cares about the preservation of the one surviving GL III(c) gunlaying radar, lying neglected out on the Canadian Prairie. It is ironic that the GL III (c) is featured on the FLICKR site of the Quebec Naval museum, but dismissed as a low priority by the RCA Museum.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museena...ec/4435376316/