WWII WIRELESS SET No.17 Mk1

A small portable ground station for communication between searchlight section headquarters and anti-aircraft batteries. It replaced signal lamps. It was designed by Stanley Lewer in 1939 for Searchlight Territorial units during the war.

This unit is original apart from the repainted front panel which was badly corroded, but the colour is the same. Serial No. 4617 one of the first series.

Your comments:

• I had a few of these at 5 shillings each from surplus shop.
  Xmited and rcvd on 1950's TV frequency.
  Saw them 20 yr s later in a TV pgm about GB's secret Army. was hidden behind a hinged fireplace in an hideout.
  I Could light a 3v bulb from a single turn coil near the tuning coil.
  .......... John Pen, Keighley, 2nd of January 2020
  
  

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