Wireless Truck Furniture

[simon king]

Originally Posted by Chris Suslowicz

The radio table with the battery clamp frames on the back is probably for a WS11 because the battery frames look too shallow for an accumulator and are probably for a pair of 250 volt primary battery boxes.

Chris.

It is strange that both of the original bench tops that I have also show witness marks for those two battery clamps across the rear along with the 5 metal strips (each 2/3 the width of the bench) to allow a variety of different sets to be installed.
Im beginning to wonder if those clamps were a standard factory fitting in British vehicles in addition to the five metal strips screwed to the bench-top.

[Chris Suslowicz]

More likely to be sheer inertia in the supply chain. There's a war on, rapid production is essential, and minor modifications that don't really achieve anything useful (they might save a bit of time and a small amount of material over a long run but would stop production while drawings were amended and jigs adjusted) will simply accumulate until there's a major change that needs to happen, at which point all the modifications that are still applicable will be incorporated.

I can easily see a "Standard Wireless Table" being manufactured effectively unchanged for the whole of WW2.

Chris.

[Dennis Gelean (RIP)]

re the wireless table, my original the wood was rotted out but it showed were a pullout tray was, any plans pictures or measurements? on the right side back table leg there was a squished ground clamp which I replaced with the oldest one I could find, Bruce P, I asked a friend to take pictures inside so there is still hope. found another crest for you still searching for the 3rd item. due to health I am very slow walker DG