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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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