Object number
201007.10
Title
Mine Detector
Description
An 4A mine detector kit that belonged to Lt. Col. Steve Simonini. Inside a large black wood box is the kit consisting of an amplifier unit and control box with a headset . There is a photocopy of the manual a measuring stick. In a canvas satchel, taht has the following written under ther top "BAGCRAFT LTD, 1945 CAT NO ZA 24242", is the mine detector with telescopic pole and search head. On the outside of the box is written in white stensil "SEC Z1, ZA 2793VI, DETECTORS MINE NO 1A KITS NO1, QTY 1, MAY 55, G&C, 1945, R.S.D. WOOLWICH U.K., FSO EG/250 2040F2". Insde the lid is a diagram showing contents. The box has metal reinforcments in the corners and rope handles.
Date
1945 - 1955
Production period
Windsor, 1910-