Talk:Telecommunications Research Establishment

message: Weren't Martin Ryle and Bernard Lovell also at TRE???Linuxlad 16:16, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: We could perhaps take one of the Crown Copyright photos from there "TRE Malvern Huts in winter 1942-3"; Crown Copyright expires 50 years after first publication (unknown), so it might be reasonable to assume 1942 MOD photos are copyright expired. Rwendland 11:12, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: NB Tom Kilburn was also at TRE, and it seems TRE funded some the early computer devleopment at Manchester University (eg Baby which ran the
first stored-program ever)
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Rwendland 11:12, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Computers

message: There's a site with some excellent restorations and reconstructions (including display simulations) of the airborne radar equipment used by the RAF in WW II here:  - scroll down to the end of the page for the AI and other equipment.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.250.124 (talk) 14:32, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: TRE Equipment reconstructions

message: According to a personal web page here using information from the papers of someone who used to work at TRE, they also did pioneering work on proton accelerators: , including work on a 4MeV pilot one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.46.109 (talk) 18:55, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other work 

message: I am editing the RRE WP article from the article about R.A.Smith in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (BMFRS). It is the richest source of information about people who worked at TRE/RRE that I have found, but my access to relevant material is limited. I am putting all the information from BMFRS into the RRE article, because it was RRE when I was there and, of greater importance, during the years that the organization was known as TRE, it was a principal developer of RADAR and the principle progenitor of solid state science in Great Britain. Splitting the history of the solid state work between what was done when the organization was called TRE, RRE (for Radar Research Establishment), RRE (for Royal Radar Establishment) and so on would be quite arbitrary and extremely difficult, trying to remember what happened before and after the name change. Likewise, research continued on radar. Unless concensus is otherwise, I will proceed with the material from BMFRS then copy from here. Michael P. Barnett (talk) 02:01, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Overlap with article about Royal Radar Establishment

message: I wrote this precis of Chapter 27 of Jones' book in language and style that I think would be acceptable in the real world. However, according to an opinion voiced in my efforts to edit the article about Charles Coulson, the subtraction of the starting page numbers of Chapters 27 and 28it violates WP:NOR. Converting the time slot of the Channel Dash from February 12/13th to the second week of February is unacceptable synthesis in the same set of rulings. And I assume I violated a wiki:loose language rule by describing an airborne attack as retaliation in kind for an attack by sea. The precis probably transgresses several other wiki-legalities that have blocked my contributions to other articles, whilst leaving scores of articles that I consider total garbage unscathed. I am putting it here in case anyone is interested in wiki-conforming it. I would be interested in what might happen if an established wiki-editor put it in as is. Michael P. Barnett (talk) 02:00, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Why this did not go directly into Article

message: I took a chance and put in the material from Reginald Jones book. 
Also rearranged a bit for consistency. 
The name of the army lab was Radar Research and Development Establishment. See Nature 164, 740-741 (29 October 1949) "Radar Research and Development Establishment, Malvern": "The Radar Research and Development Establishment of the Ministry of Supply held a series of open days at Malvern during the period September 21-23, thus giving the public its first chance of seeing the work of this well-known Establishment."
I am not sure of Reg Jones title during war. I think I was told it was Director of Scientific Intelligence, which suggests directorial responsibility, which advisor to MI6 does not -- I only looked at his book enough to extract piece about TRE move.
The Cotswold Archaeology site http://web.archive.org/web/20071015140205/http://cotswoldarch.org.uk/projects05_06/malvern.htm describes early background of working with Air Ministry and getting local "environmental impact" study, which may be why Malvern was picked as locale for TRE to move too.
Any chance of this getting merged into RRE article? 
Michael P. Barnett (talk) 01:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Update Feb. 4th

message: In view of negative reaction to suggestion of merger I just copied info about people in RRE article who were in lab when it was called TRE. Hope someone will check. More info needs to be added to some of the names.
Michael P. Barnett (talk) 22:23, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Update Feb. 7

message: The article about Joan Curran states she invented Chaff (also called Window). The obituary of Cockburn states he invented Window. I have to leave as is now.
71.225.48.166 (talk) 12:44, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a few links to the personnel section at the bottom and corrected the odd typo. Thanks for your efforts BTW, the work of TRE was so significant and far-ranging that the article as it was before was a bit skimpy - no offence to previous editors, as a lot of TREs and RREs work was still secret until quite recently.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.112.82.213 (talk) 21:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's an interesting web source that someone editing the article may find useful:   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 10:14, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: A 1945 Flight article on radar with some names of people involved here:   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 20:57, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Updates Feb. 10

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message: The claim that "Watson-Watt planned to move the teams to a safer location in the event of war, and approached the rector of his alma mater, University College at Dundee" and that "the rector was only dimly aware of the earlier conversation" makes no sense. University College, Dundee (its correct title) was at this time part of the University of St Andrews and did not have its own Rector, but was covered by the Rector of the University of St Andrews who at the time would be David Munro. However the Rector had no say in the day to day running of the University as a whole let alone University College a fact Watson-Watt would have been aware of. It would be more likely he approached either the Principal of the University James Irvine or the acting Principal of University College Angus Robertson Fulton. The latter would have been a junior staff member in Watson-Watt's day so they would have known each other. Complicating matters Irvine had been acting Principal of the College as well as the University as whole until early 1939. Whatever the case the story as outlined here is implausible. Dunarc (talk) 16:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dundee - rector does not make sense