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  • GPO Dollis Hill War Diaries

    From MB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 10 10:33:55 2022
    The GPO Dollis Hill War Diaries have been put online, seem to be quite a
    number of the reports relevant to the BBC.


    https://www.bt.com/about/bt/our-history/bt-archives/dollis-hill

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  • From jon@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 11 08:53:36 2022
    On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:33:55 +0100, MB wrote:

    The GPO Dollis Hill War Diaries have been put online, seem to be quite a number of the reports relevant to the BBC.


    https://www.bt.com/about/bt/our-history/bt-archives/dollis-hill


    I wonder what was removed.

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  • From Liz Tuddenham@21:1/5 to MB@nospam.net on Fri Aug 12 21:38:19 2022
    MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:

    The GPO Dollis Hill War Diaries have been put online, seem to be quite a number of the reports relevant to the BBC.


    https://www.bt.com/about/bt/our-history/bt-archives/dollis-hill

    Thanks for that, it was absolutely fascinating.

    How refreshing to read of the days when the Post Office (represented by
    Jim Doust of the GPO Telephone Transmission and Acoustics Groups) was so scrupulously honest that Cecil Watts gave away his disc-manufacturing
    company to them without the slightest doubt that he would be treated
    fairly and it would be returned to him at the end of the war.



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  • From MB@21:1/5 to Liz Tuddenham on Sat Aug 13 08:14:13 2022
    On 12/08/2022 21:38, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
    How refreshing to read of the days when the Post Office (represented by
    Jim Doust of the GPO Telephone Transmission and Acoustics Groups) was so scrupulously honest that Cecil Watts gave away his disc-manufacturing
    company to them without the slightest doubt that he would be treated
    fairly and it would be returned to him at the end of the war.

    Was that the "M.S.S." company that is often mention in the reports on
    disc recordin#?

    Don't forget that there are lots of files and images on the BT Telecom
    Archive though searching can be difficult and large downloads often fail.

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  • From Liz Tuddenham@21:1/5 to MB@nospam.net on Sat Aug 13 10:39:07 2022
    MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:

    On 12/08/2022 21:38, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
    How refreshing to read of the days when the Post Office (represented by
    Jim Doust of the GPO Telephone Transmission and Acoustics Groups) was so scrupulously honest that Cecil Watts gave away his disc-manufacturing company to them without the slightest doubt that he would be treated
    fairly and it would be returned to him at the end of the war.

    Was that the "M.S.S." company that is often mention in the reports on
    disc recordin#?

    Yes. Cecil Watts and Jim Doust both describe the wartime takeover of
    MSS in "Audio Biographies" by Briggs. What was new about the GPO
    account was the detail about clandestine purposes to which the majority
    of the factory's output was being put - neither Watts nor Doust cover
    that.


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