Accession No

2845

Brief Description

artillery director, adapted for use as a theodolite or transit instrument for use in Spitsbergen by Brian Harland, 1940 (c)

Origin

Maker

Class

military

Earliest Date

1940

Latest Date

1940

Inscription Date

Material

metal (aluminium, silver, other)

Dimensions

case length 160mm; breadth 130mm; height 115mm tripod height 593mm; maximum diameter 46mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 05/1982. Purchased from Army Surplus stores about 1950.

Inscription

‘SEDG. MUSEUM
S1’
‘ARTILLERY DIRECTOR
Sedgwick Museum. Cambridge
T16’ (on tripod)
‘A 22’ (on mount)
‘SEDGWICK MUSEUM
CAMBRIDGE
MIDGET DIRECTOR
S.1.’ (on box)

Description Notes

Artillery director adapted as small theodolite. Prismatic sight with vertical arc, silvered scale divided 0-50 by 1o. Horizontal scale divided 0-64, tangent screw with drumhead divided 0-100. 2 bubble levels in grey-painted cast base. Later tribach base with 3 levelling screws. Folding tripod with aluminium mount consisting of two discs, the upper rotating over the lower, with clamping screw, the lower divided 0-360 by 10o. Metal box with shoulder strap.

The sand-coloured paint probably indicates manufacture for the German Army in North Africa.

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