----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim" <tcb@hasher.demon.co.uk>
To: "Military Vehicles List" <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:38 AM
Subject: [MV] Tabby
> Not a cat.... British WW2 Night Driving Glasses....
>
> Are these items rare - anyone got any details on them ?
>
Haven't seen any for ages but had a new boxed (crated) set when I was 17
(that'd be about 1963) when this stuff and ex-mil radios were being given
away new for a pound or so.
Huge binocular affairs about 2ft long with a control box and PSU that used a
vibrator and standard car ignition coil to provide EHT for the glass capsule
image intensifiers, I never did get it to work and likely was all thrown
away c.1970 along with unused 19, 88, 38, 1154 and 1155 sets I cluttered my
parents house with then.
I recall the Tabby system required the binoculars to be hung from the
vehicle roof and the drivers/operators had strapped into the eye-pieces.
Richard
Southampton - England
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