tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post223248200155419312..comments2024-03-26T14:19:33.332-07:00Comments on Bench Grass: Running Away to the Air, 4: Deep RadioErik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-38796030900162251152011-10-26T10:16:43.427-07:002011-10-26T10:16:43.427-07:00Fortunately, it's still all one big military-i...Fortunately, it's still all one big military-industrial complex! <br /><br /><br />Although what about the poor jute farmers?<br />http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ouyr7shT8tsC&lpg=PA41&ots=JFSFBUG8yy&dq=jute%20p%20j.%20o'rourke&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=falseErik Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-21905142422449453352011-10-26T03:40:49.713-07:002011-10-26T03:40:49.713-07:00This works with my family history - practically ev...This works with my family history - practically everyone seems to have done something with electronics, radio, or telecommunications in mid-century (and ha-what did I end up doing?). Whether that was Siemens & Halske (UK), making telephone exchanges, what became BT but was then Post Office Telephones, RN radio and radar (including commissioning the installation aboard <em>Howe</em>, which as a HACS IV-GB/ABU ship that commissioned post-<em>PoW/Repulse</em> must have been quite the Star Trek cockpit), REME radio workshops, Marconi-Elliott Automation-GEC-BAE-Selex flight control systems, MetroVickers aircraft instrumentation. I don't think anyone actually worked at Bletchley Park or TRE Malvern, but then they wouldn't tell you would they?<br /><br />The only person who didn't spent the war giving Rolls-Royce Merlins their ration of tender loving care, and also acting as a temporary riot cop in Bangalore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com