Wireless Set No. 52 Canadian - Project

[David Dunlop]

This item arrived in the afternoon mail today. Quite a bit of brown, Bakelite oxidation on it, which I have now polished off the right hand link in the first photo. Very easy to read the ZA 4444 VAOS Number on the polished link compared to the other two in the chain.

There is just one more of these to find now and I will have the set of five needed to replicate the 4-Section Horizontal Aerial used with the 52-Set.

An interesting observation with the photo of the group of three items with attached split metal links. Two of these chains also bear the ZA 4444 VAOS Number on each chain link. The third one, although virtually identical to the other two chains otherwise, has the Air Ministry Stamp on one side of each link, with ‘REF #10B/1275’, located on the lower half of the same side of each link in the chain. Clearly the Air Force and Army were using the same items under differing Stock Number systems.


David