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The last answers :-D The main purpose was not signalling but: The way of avoiding enemy observation was simply:
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The light is just so that it can be seen at night, its just another variant of the basic model. I don't think there was any intention for the flap model to act as a signalling shutter over the light source. They seem to be two separate variants.
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Wally yes that was a feature proposed for the more advance model where it was flipped back & forth to reveal a different colour or pattern or flipped in a coded sequence. It wasn't an anti-observation feature.
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Wally there were various shapes envisaged for signifying different things be that for a particular unit or a particular signal. But that wasn't the way of avoiding enemy observation.
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Wally yes illuminated for after dark use & option of different colours. This was illuminated by means of a wick. We've not really got the other purpose yet & how enemy detection was minimised.
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Wally yes one variant has an additional flap in the form of a semi-circle "b" on Fig 1 & 3 flapped in & out by the lever "d2" in Fig 4 So what is the variant on the right?
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Not as sophisticated as that Wally
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Oh dear too much information given away too soon. So that was a waste of £5 or so! The inventor lived in Canterbury as it happens. So assuming the ebay image is unreadable :-D What was the primary purpose apart from communications? What are the features of the other variants? How was it intended to be used to avoid enemy observation?
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Nope Roy
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I bet they would have liked that John. Don't think it was adopted into service though.
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Oh crikey did you google it to ebay? Grrh! I only got it in the post today!
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Nope although a disadvantage of it would be that it was bound to get blown about a bit!
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Very good Richard spot on. There were several variants of construction & use detailed here. Can anyone explain these? There was also a purpose more basic than communicating although in the broadest sense it is also communication.
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Nope Wally Army. It is likely that the first experiments were done with 7th Dragoon Guards.
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Not bad Wally, 1907 in fact.
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Simon I think I know what you might have in mind, those particular devices if they did exist beyond barrack room horror stories make me wince.:shake: But no its much larger, the pole is for carrying it.
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This is what Richard & Bernard alluded to
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Andy nope (not an early OW mechanism :-D) not a projectile
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Not inflatable Wally although it does look rather bladder like & not for measuring.
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It does open out Bernard but you mustn't pick anything with this. Nope not a ball picker
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:rofl: Nope, although funnily enough you are right in that there is a certain similarity
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What's this all about?
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Here you go:
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introduction Time to put my head above the parapet...
fv1609 replied to Quad's topic in Introductions & Welcomes
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AP 2782E Books 1 & 2 I've got both of these, they are quite big I don't want to part with them nor can I really copy them. But I don't mind doing the odd page if there was something in particular you were after.
