R.E.L. Optics Questions

[Surpmil]

The crown corporations were I think more interested in innovation that private contractors would have been. They operated on a cost-recovery basis and saw product improvement as part of their mandate - probably it was officially as well.

I think it is fair to say that we have, or had in this country a happy combination of many of the best characteristics of the British and American peoples. The promise was great, but the vision was not there in wide enough numbers. Too many of those who might have been builders of this country were seduced by philosophical delusions, and the realities of power were there to pick off many of the others. The perpetual need to flatter and humour Quebec and her sixty seats in parliament also ham-strung this country. Longer story than we have space for here!

As for others, great powers reflect in their behaviours the characters of their peoples, just as other nations do, and sadly usually not the best of their peoples either.

The defence industries that were created during the war were referred to at times as "the fourth armed service", but with peacetime comes the usual pettifogging politics, apathy, factionalism etc. etc. Quebec continues in one form or another to chip away at the identity of English-speaking Canada, ably assisted by a post-war "intellectual elite" who swallowed cultural marxism whole and who when not wringing their little pink hands over the evils of "nationalism", whinge about how they don't want to be Americans; apparently unable to see that they will have one or the other, and sooner than they think.

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[Surpmil]

Came across this recently.

[Lee Enfield]

Came across this recently.

I came across a document recently which states that REL developed/ used new optical glues to replace Balsam as lense glue.