Introduction
This page consists of a set of photographs sent to us by David Bennett - the photographer was his father, the late Wg Cdr Herbert E "Benny" Bennett, who worked for AEI and then Marconi from 1968 (as Technical Manager of the Saudi Arabian SAGEU project) and later was the in-country Site Manager for Project Snake in Abu Dhabi in 1976.
The photographs show the erection of the S1020 Surveillance antenna and the arrival of the S600 height-finder and surveillance mobile vehicles.
Further technical detail will be added when available.
The thumbnail photographs are hyperlinks to larger versions.
Photographs
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S1020 antenna and tower. |
S1020 antenna from above. |
Mark Rutherford on stairway. |
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Work on stairway from below. |
S1020 antenna on erection pad. |
S163 HF antenna on ramp. |
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Radar Office power board (with Felton Alexander) |
At work on waveguide below S1020 horns |
Harry Wilson inspects base of S1020 before lift to tower top. |
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Lifting antenna to tower top |
Final positioning |
Antenna and tower complete 10/1976 |
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Frank Watkin on UHF Comms mast. |
S600 height-finder being unloaded |
S600 surveillance being unloaded |
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Don Pegg (2nd from left) and H E Bennett (3rd from left) by S600 surveillance antenna |
H E Bennett in Marconi mess December 1975 |
Brian Mullooly with Mark Rutherford (in hat) as antenna is lowered. |
