Sighting Scope Brass WW2 Cooke WWII Artillery Troughton Simms UK

Description

Cooke, Troughton & Simms Scope World War II. A Heavy Brass Scope With Changeable Eye Piece.
Measures 16" L x 4 1/2" Diameter
Marking On Scope
G361.H No. 527 WT/A CTS NLP 44
Company History Wartime Production
In 1936 a list of military requirements was issued by the minister for co-ordination of defense, Sir Thomas Inksip. One result was the building of a new factory in 1938 in Haxby Road, York. The firm's telescope-making business was acquired by Sir Howard Grubb Parsons LTD.At the outbreak of war in 1939 the UK government placed large orders for military sighting telescopes and theodolites. By 1940 output was only limited by the supply of raw materials and orders exceeded £1,000,000
During the Second World War many Tavistock theodolites were used in artillery observation and many other applications by survey regiments. During this period 3,300 people were employed by the company. Anticipating post war trading conditions several new products such as medical microscopes suited to a civilian role were developed using tooling created for wartime production
At the end of the Second World War, a film entitled Cooke In Wartime 1939-45 was released which documented the manufacturing processes used to produce many of the optical instruments which were used in tanks, airplanes and on ships. The Haxby Road factory was redsignated "Kingsway North" with a workforce of 900 in 1939, rising to 2000 in 1941 and peaking in 1943.
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