Wurzburg radar aerial, folding, trolley-mounted, German, 1939-45

The Würzburg Type A radar was developed before and during World War 2 for the German airforce and army. Although a highly sophisticated apparatus it relied still on conventional radar technology requiring a relatively large aerial dish. Allied developments using the cavity magnetron enabled far more compact devices to be built. This Würzburg unit is possibly that captured by British forces during the Bruneval commando raid of 1942. In the 1990s another unit located in underground tunnels built by the German occupying forces on the island of Guernsey was inspected by the Science and Guernsey Museums with a view to using parts for the complete restoration of the Science Museum's unit. This was duly done making it the most complete Würzburg Type A still in existence.