- Title:
- Very early mobile radar receiver type RM1, handmade at Bawdsey in 1937 or 1938
- Object name(s):
- radar equipment; radar equipment
- Brief description:
- Very early mobile radar receiver type RM1, hand-made at Bawdsey in 1937 or 1938, probably early in 1937 around the same time as the type TF3. This mobile radar receiver is one of - if not the - earliest radar receiver in the Science Museum collections. It was described by then Science Museum curator GRM Garratt as "comparatively small but somewhat roughly made."
- Collection:
- Science Museum Group
- Credit line:
- Air Ministry
- Dimension:
- depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 35 7/16
- Dimension:
- depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 900
- Dimension:
- height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 66 9/16
- Dimension:
- height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 1690
- Dimension:
- width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 38 3/16
- Dimension:
- width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 970
- Dimension:
- depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 38 9/16
- Dimension:
- depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 980
- Dimension:
- height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 69 11/16
- Dimension:
- height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 1770
- Dimension:
- width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 46 9/16
- Dimension:
- width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 1182
- Object name:
- radar equipment; radar equipment
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1937
- Date - latest:
- 1938
- Object production date:
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1937
- Date - latest:
- 1938
- Object production place:
- Bawdsey, England
- Other number:
- 1948-162
- Other number type:
- accession number
- Other number:
- 8123(4)4/6
- Other number type:
- file number
- Responsible department/section:
- SCM - Radio Communication
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b33f83a6-17ec-3efb-a393-b0dd234d9aa9
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b33f83a6-17ec-3efb-a393-b0dd234d9aa9, Science Museum Group, CC BY
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