[Milsurplus] WW II Test Bench Instruments

[Bruce MacMillan]

It's not the design lab but the March 1945 issue of QST has a photo on 
the front cover of a radio assembly and repair bench in a Quonset hut at 
an overseas U.S. Army depot. It contains a mixture of  mil stuff (BC221, 
I-177, multimeters) and civilian stuff (sig generator, tube tester, 
vtvm) from Supreme and others.

Bruce   ve7mt

J Forster wrote:

>Out of curiosity, what test instruments would have been on the bench of
>a radio or radar development engineer in the last days of WW II ?
>
>I can see a BC-221 or LM-xx and a VOM (what kind?), but what about
>scopes, RF generators, AF generators, power supplies, etc. I suppose it
>would have been a mix of military and commercial, but that's just a
>guess. I'm more interested in standard gear, not special, purpose built,
>test sets for a specific system.
>
>Thanks,
>-John
>