[Hammarlund] Oscar Hammarlund's clocks

[Roy Morgan]

At 01:29 PM 12/16/03 -0500, EXITOR1@flash.net wrote:
>I beleive that Oscar Hammarlund had passed away before
>the HQ clock was placed in the production radios.
>
>However Oscar Hammarlund was previously employed by a
>very famous watch maker (in his younger days).
>I believe the watch maker was Elgin.
>
>His last wish might have been to build a radio with a
>clock.

Was it the "Model 19 Set", designed in England, that had a pocket watch 
installed in the front panel?

The purpose, of course, was to let the operator transmit at the correct 
time according to the operational communications plan.

Roy


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