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War Office: Air Defence Experimental Establishment: Reports
Catalogue reference: AVIA 17
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AVIA 17
Reports on acoustical devices and gun sound ranging.
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AVIA 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: Air Defence Experimental Establishment: Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
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1925-1942
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports on acoustical devices and gun sound ranging.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Air Defence Experimental Establishment, 1924-1941
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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50 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1968 War Office
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The Air Defence Experimental Establishment (A.D.E.E.) existed under this name from 1924 until 1941. Previously known as the Searchlight Experimental Establishment (S.L.E.E.), the establishment had evolved out of the Experimental Section of the Royal Engineers set up at Woolwich in 1917 for the development of searchlights. The threat inherent in aircraft development led to the conversion of this Section into a Civil Department controlled by the War Office. It was known as the Searchlight Experimental Establishment until 1924 when in the year following its move to Biggin Hill, Kent, it was renamed the Air Defence Experimental Establishment. The Establishment remained at Biggin Hill until 1939 when it was transferred to Christchurch, Hants. In 1941 it was renamed the Air Defence Research and Development Establishment.
The A.D.E.E., like S.L.E.E., was concerned with research into gun sound ranging and acoustics, and in 1936 began to take an active interest in radar research, at that time being pursued under the auspices of the Air Ministry.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2597/
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