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This page details booklets and other material available
from the Purbeck Radar Museum Trust. Currently [May
2007] the two booklets and brochure are available for
purchase by visitors to the the Swanage Museum &
Heritage Centre. Sale of booklets help fund the website,
radar exhibition and
reference library - but donations
are always welcome!!
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Dorset's Radar Days - The British Radar Story 1935 - 1945
by: Dr Bill Penley and Reg Batt
This
booklet tells the story of early radar development in the UK from the Daventry
experiment in 1935 to after the D-Day invasion. It focuses on the period from
May 1940 - May 1942 when radar development was centred at the
Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) in Purbeck, Dorset. Both
of the authors worked at TRE during that period, and the most significant developments were
probably made then. The booklet was
originally compiled to accompany the Purbeck Radar Museum Trust's 1994 D-Day
anniversary exhibition at Swanage Town Hall.
Publisher: Purbeck Radar Museum Trust
First edition 1994; Second edition 1996; Third edition 1997;
Fourth edition 2006
ISSN 1367-8590
24 pages A5
Price: £2.40 (to be confirmed) |
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With Radar to Final Victory -
VE-Day Commemorative Issue
by: Dr Bill Penley and Reg Batt
Guest contributors: Sir Bernard Lovell, Sq Ldr Frank Hayward
This booklet continues the radar story started in "Dorset's
Radar Days" to the end of World War II and beyond (including a
short resumé of the story before that). After D-Day mobile
radar units were designed by TRE and deployed in Europe and the Middle
East. Following the war, the technological advancements spawned
by radar and the Enigma code breaking at Bletchley Park went on to
form the basis of the electronics industry we take for granted today:
Air Traffic Control, blind landing aids, radio astronomy, terrestrial
and satellite communications,... and microwave ovens!! Crystal
diodes used in centimetric radar receivers were a step on the path to
the development of the transistor and, Geoffrey Dummer, instigator of
the radar Plan Position Indicator, went on to pioneer integrated
circuits with multiple transistors on a single semiconductor chip.
Publisher: Purbeck Radar Museum Trust 1996
40 pages A5
Price: £2.50 (to be confirmed) |
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Radar Development in
Purbeck, Dorset 1940 -
1942
by: Purbeck Radar Museum Trust 2006
This
brochure gives a brief but insightful outline of early
radar development in the UK. What started as one
scientist's concern about air defence, ended up
being key to the
success of the UK and its allies in World War II. There is a fold
out map showing the radar development sites in Purbeck,
Dorset from May 1940 - May 1942 with a narrative which
summarises key activities at that time. The brochure
also includes photographs giving a snapshot of the radar sites
and masts. While only one building still
stands today, the story and technological advances
live on...
Publisher: Purbeck Radar Museum Trust 2006
Suitable for a younger audience: ~12 years or
older.
A3 folded, double sided colour
Price: £1
(bulk reduction negotiable for resale) |
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Penley
Radar Archives - CD-ROM
In the 1990s Dr Bill Penley, one of the
wartime radar researchers, wrote to a number of
wartime colleagues asking for their personal
reminiscences, photographs etc. relating to that
period. His aim was to preserve some
record of that significant time for the benefit
of future researchers. He encountered
difficulties in finding a suitable home to
preserve these records, while at the same time making them accessible
for study. He has therefore scanned
some of the records and saved them to CD-ROM. An index of the scanned documents
(plus some introductory material) is available
on the Penley Radar Archives website: www.penleyradararchives.org.uk
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CD-ROM
Publisher: Purbeck Radar Museum Trust
Price: £20 inc p&p
Will be available by mail order when
arrangements have been finalised - keep an eye
on this page! |
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