19-Set A-Set Aerial Base Assembly

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by Bruce MacMillan

Yes the aerial base is the ZA1763 and the black rubber base is ZA1825. Both appear in the 1944 EMER so would be period correct for WW2. What is not known is when it was introduced.

Early WW2 (very early) is my guess, and original to the (British manufactured) set.

The original stores vocabulary had no stores codes, it was simply a keyword list until early in WW2 at which point they were forced to number everything to simplify ordering. This mist have happened around 1938/1939 because large quantities of the WS19 ancillaries have low-ish stores codes. (Lower than things which definitely pre-dated the WS19 development.)

e.g. Bags, Aerial Gear No.2 Mk.II (for the sectional 34-ft mast) is ZA.0437, its insulator, W/T 'B' is ZA.4432, and the humble "Satchel Signals" is ZA.6292 (having replaced Bags, Telephone Receiver and Cases, Message Book, Mk.V). The WS19 aerial components are somewhere in the middle, with the aerial bases around ZA.176x, along with the original multiway connectors, the aerial rods somewhat lower (Aerial Rods 'F' at ZA.0894, 5 & 6),
and the feeder co-ax ZA.3141-3.

I may have a go at constructing a list - I have a reasonable selection of source material.

:-)>

(Note: I am definitely not proposing to index the 30,000+ items that had beed in Section 'Z' by the end of WW2; life is definitely too short for that!)

Chris.