10-11-2020, 11:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-11-2020, 11:35 AM by peter scott.)
Some of you may have noticed a Facebook advert selling pre-war CRTs located not far from me. I have given temporary storage to the four white screen television types but not the green screen radar types. These tubes are remnants from Michael Bennett-Levy's collection and the two radar tubes are described here.
I've been trying to contact the various small radar museums to let them know of these tubes (priced at £10 each) and came across this little snippet from here relating the burial of WWII equipment to the film "Hell Drivers" and thought it was rather interesting.
"The massive excavations led to a major spoil disposal exercise. Lorry loads of excavated materials
were transported to a site north of the downs, resulting in a journey down to Shoreham before turning back
along the Steyning road. It has been said that the drivers were paid by the load, and that some took the
risky short cut down a track to Beeding at the right angled turn in the Truleigh Hill road.
Some time later, in 1957, some scenes for the film Hell Drivers, starring Patrick McGoohan and
Stanley Baker, were shot on the roads and fields around Truleigh Hill. The plot for the film also involved a
situation where drivers paid by the lorry load were taking short cuts down the steep side of the hill. At one
point in the film, a truck goes over a quarry to the north of the Truleigh Hill road and catches fire. The
RAF radar staff on their way up in the morning spotted the truck roped up on the edge of the quarry, along
with other general activity, but it had all gone by the evening. It is to be wondered if there was any
connection between the two situations."
Peter
I've been trying to contact the various small radar museums to let them know of these tubes (priced at £10 each) and came across this little snippet from here relating the burial of WWII equipment to the film "Hell Drivers" and thought it was rather interesting.
"The massive excavations led to a major spoil disposal exercise. Lorry loads of excavated materials
were transported to a site north of the downs, resulting in a journey down to Shoreham before turning back
along the Steyning road. It has been said that the drivers were paid by the load, and that some took the
risky short cut down a track to Beeding at the right angled turn in the Truleigh Hill road.
Some time later, in 1957, some scenes for the film Hell Drivers, starring Patrick McGoohan and
Stanley Baker, were shot on the roads and fields around Truleigh Hill. The plot for the film also involved a
situation where drivers paid by the lorry load were taking short cuts down the steep side of the hill. At one
point in the film, a truck goes over a quarry to the north of the Truleigh Hill road and catches fire. The
RAF radar staff on their way up in the morning spotted the truck roped up on the edge of the quarry, along
with other general activity, but it had all gone by the evening. It is to be wondered if there was any
connection between the two situations."
Peter
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