Box 3: RGO 43/18-23
Contains 6 Results:
Correspondence on the setting up of an emergency National Time Service at the Royal Observatory Magnetic Station, Abinger, Dorking, at the beginning of the Second World War, 1939 - 1941
The correspondence is mainly concerned with the provision of telephone lines etc. for use in the transmission of time signals from the emergency station.
Feldemore (Abinger) accommodation for Time Department staff working at Abinger, 1951 - 1952
Routine correspondence on the maintenance of buildings and facilities in the accommodation provided at Feldemore for Time Department staff working at Abinger.
Chronographs: correspondence, reports etc. on the acquisition of new and improved types of chronograph, 1942 - 1954
Including new decimal counter chronometers, for use in the Time Department and elsewhere in the RGO.
Routine administrative Time Department papers, 1947 - 1952
Included are requests for information (scientific papers, labels etc.) from the Time Department to the RGO Library, and submissions of reports (hours worked etc.) from the Time Department to the secretariat of the RGO.
Correspondence dealing with the acquisition of instruments and equipment for use in the Time Department (Abinger and Greenwich) of the RGO, 1950 - 1953
Included are letters of enquiry on the suitability of items, consultations of H.M. Smith with the Astronomer Royal on the proposed purchases, and order forms to suppliers.
Correspondence on the design of the PZT (Photographic Zenith Tube) at the RGO, 1943 - 1952
Most of the correspondence is from D.S. Perfect. Gaps in the correspondence (for instance, no letters for 1944) suggest that a considerable amount of correspondence is missing or filed elsewhere.