[Hammarlund] Oscar Hammarlund's clocks

Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:00:53 +0100

Even in the 50'es there were military radios equipped like this, for
instance the Swiss HF-receiver Autophon E-627 (civilian version E-76)
produced from abt. 1952 and used into the 1970s had a large
{quot}borduhr{quot} clock on the front. It could be taken off, and
unfortunately is missing on my otherwise very fine set. 

By the way, I believe Oscar Hammarlund was in his younger days working in
his home-country Sweden, as nr.2 man to a certain L.M.Ericsson making
phones. He wanted his own firm, and like many Swedes in the last half of
the 19th century emigrated to the States. 

Best,

Clemens S.Ostergaard

Aarhus

Denmark 

SP-600-JX17 and an EAC R390A are my Hammarlund
&quot;credentials&quot;.

At 22:41 16-12-2003 -0500, WF2U wrote:

Almost all of the WW2 Wireless Sets
(British military and other non-US

Allied forces nomenclature for radio transmitting and receiving
equipment)

had watch holders on them and pocket watches were issued to mount them
in

those holders, to keep the net times. Among them were of course the
Wireless

Set No. 19, Wireless Set 22, Wireless Set 52 (Canadian), Reception Set
107,

Reception Set 109, Wireless Set Z.C.1,  to mention a few.
The pocket watches were mostly Swiss made, were marked 
{quot}G.S.T.P{quot} (General
Purpose Time Piece), contract number and the British Crown property
{quot}broad
arrow&quot; mark.

Most of these watches work well even today...

73, Meir WF2U

Landrum, SC

Member, Wireless Set 19 Group

Collector of WW2 British/Allied military radios

-----Original Message-----

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Behalf Of Roy Morgan

Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:12 PM

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Subject: Re: [Hammarlund] Oscar Hammarlund's clocks

{quot}.........Was it the {quot}Model 19 Set{quot}, 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&quot;

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