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Description: | LUF.17 (written in white paint on the top and side of the camera body). CAMERA TYPE G45 REF 119 14a/1390 SER%IAL No. 11612 WILLIAMSON M.F.G. Co. LTD LONDON & READING (maker's name, model and serial number cast into a cartouch on the side of the camera body). MODIFICATIONS MOD. No. D18 D20 (written on an aluminium plate attached to the side of the camera body). SHORT LENS TYPE 45 REF 14A1399 SERIAL No. 61 11612 (lens model and number cast into a cartouch on the side of the lens holder). 24 VOLTS (required voltage of the electrical power supply required for the electric motor that drives the camera). Hunterian Museum G.1986.141 (catalogue number typed on a self adhesive label, removed). MANU Williamson Manufacturing Company circa 1940 Reading, Berkshire, England. DES after ARISTOTLE. circa 350 BC. Macedonia, Greece. DES after BACON,Roger. circa 1250 Oxford, England. DES after KEPLER,Johannes. 1600 Benatky near Prague Bohemia, now the Ch This is a WWII vintage fighter aircraft gun camera with its drop-in magazine or film cassette see GLAHM 129200. The camera has an electric motor that powers a clockwork gearing sytem that drives the winding of the drop-in film cassette and the camera shutter. It was designed to take 16mm black and white moving pictures along the a parallel axisto the gun sight thus making a record of what the pilot was shooting at. This enabled an assement of the number of hits made and any resulting damage. The camera was operated electricaly by the same button switch, on the aircrafts joy stick (control column), that fired the aircraft's gun. When the button switch was released both camera and gun stopped. It is little realised that a WWII pilot had sufficient rounds of ammunition to fire for about thirty seconds. In a spitfire the camera was situated in the port wing root and had internal electrical heaters that prevented the optics and mechanism from freezing it also helped increase the sensitivity of the film. Because of the electrical control system this type of camera was easily adapted for time lapse photography because by the addition of a simple electronic timer it could be made to take one frame at a time over long periods. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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