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Mine's bigger than yours

Drive room

Looking down on the speaking dishes in the visitor centre.

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Uploaded on Jun 1, 2009

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Yet another view of the elevation drive.

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Uploaded on Jun 1, 2009

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Drive room

Drive room

Another angle of the elevation drives.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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The mechanism which drives the dish in elevation. It has two drives working against each other. Even...

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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Bearing

Teeth

The central bearing. One particularly windy day with gusts up to 90mph saw the whole dish lifted up,...

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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The teeth of that WW1 turret.

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Looking back

Steelwork

Looking back across the bottom of the bowl with the original surface above.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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Looking down at the elevation tracks.

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Two more scopes

Manchester

The 13m Crab pulsar scope and the Mk. II, with the MERLIN mast between them.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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Looking across the Cheshire plane to Manchester.

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Doiley

Extension

The original surface has seen better days. Year by year it becomes more necessary to remove it.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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The fact that the tower was extended when the bowl was reshaped can be seen from this photo.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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Walking on the dish one day

The tower

To give an idea of scale.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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Looking up the tower to the receiver box.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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Artificial horizon

In the bowl

Looking out of the bowl.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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Like all good scientific instruments, held together by string.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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Between the bowls

The famously salvaged turrets

Below is the original surface and above the current. This illustrates the different shape of these...

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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It is well known that these pivots were originally gun turret mounts on First World War battleships.

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Uploaded on May 31, 2009

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