Goxhill

Attached are two photos of the original Control Room desk at Thurleigh. As you know, we have the correct Signal Corps LS-3 speakers in our desk. Now we want to try to identify the two switch panels shown in the unfortunately grainy photos that our late friend Bill Carlile took just after VE Day of "his" desk.

The switch on the left looks like a beveled switchplate that has the T-17 (?) microphone on the desk plugged into it. My guess is that there are red and green transmit / receive lights on the top, two volume control knobs, then jacks for the headsets and one or more mics. Have no idea if this was a field mod or inherited from the RAF who was at Thurleigh first.

The right hand switchplate looks to have larger switches. Looks much larger than the typical frequency selector switches that were usually taken from aircraft parts bins for that purpose. Of course it could be something else entirely like controlling lighting or something.

Is this something we could float out to the Airfield Research Group forum? Volunteer Bob Finlay is looking for the right kind of bits and pieces to recreate the first plate, so any help we can give him would be awesome.


Thanks!

Er rather confusing; was this supposed to be Goxhill as per the header or was it Bedford/Thurleigh?

Sorry Terry, didn't mean it to be confusing. I am a volunteer at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach VA, USA We have the Watch Tower from Goxhill, we are in the process of equipping it as it was in World War II. We have been using pictures from other watch towers to authentically show what was there (such as Thurleigh). WE posted the attached pictures to show what we are trying to create, we have the speakers, the post was to see if anybody could identify the switches. Does this help?

Along the same lines as the previous request, we are also looking for information on an airfield lighting control panel and "Mimic" board. The attached pictures are again from Thurleigh, which we have been using as a source. Again we are looking to identify switches, controls, gauges that were used.