RADIOLOCATORS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 222, 19 September 1941, Page 5

RADIOLOCATORS

MADE IN CANADA ! ORDERS WORTH £8,000,000 TORONTO (Ontario). Britain's radiolocator, the device which warns of approaching planes miles away and is given much credit! for winning the Battle of Britain last; fall, is being produced and developed in Canada at a Government-owned company operating under the Can-' adian Department of Munitions and Supply. Facilities for production of

the equipment have progressed to a;> .point where orders on hand amount jto £8,000,000. A number of radio-! locators has been ordered by the! 'Department of National Defence.' iSome will be used for training, but jit is expected many will find thein iway to Britain. At present equipment is being shipped in small quantities, but volume production will begin in August. All radiolocator equipment is assembled in one plant > —thus assuring control of secrecy, • and is of a highly complicated ; nature, one special device having nmore than 40,000 parts. ;; The radiolocator has a high degree' I of accuracy as it is not subject tol I limitations of optical equipment, andj jean be used at night or in foggy! •.weather. Several types are being) I produced, for use on land, in the ' air, and on naval vessels.