This request is from a photographer who wants to find a Wild A8 Stereoplotter in use: Hello,
I’m a french artist and I work actually on the history of aerial photography. I research a “Wild A8 Stereo plotter” and I would to know where I can find a “Wild A8 Stereo plotter” operating. I would like to make print with this.
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AW11 Digital MappingAW10 Copy Camera RoomAW08 Drawing OfficeAW09 Repro Photo DepartmentAW07 Oblique camera installation from R&I Dept
Photographs of the various departments in Fairey Surveys. These have been supplied by Adrian Workman. Does anyone know the name of the girl in the Drawing Office?
Fairey Surveys used and made some very specialised equipment. Here are pictures and information about some of it (click on the name or the photo for the full view). Tony Furneaux and Adrian Workman provided the photographs, and Derek Minter and Lawrence Scott contributed the brochures.
Fairey Additive Viewer brochure (Mk 2: The first picture is slightly different, with an extra interface, and the weight has more than doubled – FSL Newsletter 18 has details of the changes)
The photo of the camera without operator, AW17, was designed to be installed in an RAF Scout helicopter and used to take oblique photographs at long range. It shows the vibration isolator unit which the camera is mounted on. The five photographs AW15,16,18,19 & 20 are parts of a typical vibration isolator unit that were made in the R&I Department.
AW17 Camera side view with vibration isolator unit
AW15 Alloy castings from vibration isolator unit
AW16 Alloy shapes from vibration isolator unit
AW19 Alloy shapes from vibration isolation unit (2)
AW18 Machine turnings from vibration isolator unit
AW20 Machine turnings from vibration isolator unit (2)
C8 Stereoplanigraph
Operator: Bansil
Stereo Metrograph Plotter
A8 Plotter
Wild A8 Stereoplotters
Operators left to right: John Churchard, ?, ?
Attached are a number of photos from Tony Furneaux’s files, which will be sorted into department categories later. Some have unidentified people in – please send in a comment with the reference number if you want to add anything to the caption. Click on the thumbnail for the full picture.
John McAuslan, Neil Chisholm behind John
??, Neil Chisholm, ??,??
Left to right: John (Clark?) – only joined the company a month earlier; Norman Cook – about to work in Australia; Bill Cameron, Manager
Shortly after this photo was taken, the hotel in Loch Long where they were staying caught fire, and Norman and the young man were killed.
Donald Paton and Erica Walling
John Turner
Tony Furneaux, visitor, operator Pat ?, Pete Forsey
Neil Chisholm and Tony Furneaux at an inter department cricket match
Peter Challis in the foreground with Ian McClaren(?) to his right
Ted Jones or Bill Wilkins (dancing) with ?, on settee Tom Phillips, Gerry Jones, Jack Render(?), Arthur Clark(?), Bill Cheffins on the far right
