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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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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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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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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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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