EXPLOSIVE CHARGES IN RADAR SETS
LONDON, May 11
A “death in radar sets” warning was issued tonight by the police and Air Ministry experts, following an explosion in which a man had his skull and jaw fractured, his face mutilated, and three fingers blown otl. Radio enthusiasts are warned that wartime top-secret radar sets now being retailed originally contained an explosive charge, in the form of a detonator, for their destruction if they fell into enemy hands. The ciiarges were supposed to have been removed before the sets were sold. The victim of the explosion, George Grosse, of Pilsley, Derbyshire, intended to convert his set, which he bought at a Nottingham radio shop, to television. The proprietor asked the police to broadcast warnings to 46 other purchasers of sets.
Buyers are warned that they risk serious injury and even death if they tamper with the sets. An official said that in some hundreds of sets sold to radio men throughout the" country at five guineas each, at least one detonator had not been xemoved.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22658, 8 June 1948, Page 8
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