WWII No4T SCOUT REGIMENT TELESCOPE MKII – EXTRA EYEPIECE

[Surpmil]

Here is the above book or the thesis it was based on, available for download: The optical munitions industry in Great Britain 1888-1923 - Enlighten: Theses

I see Pilkingtons was sold out to a smaller Japanese glass company in 2006! Pilkington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe the Panama Papers would have something on that.

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[Surpmil]

Just saw another "Tel. Signaller's MkIII also G.S." by "Consol, Toronto, 1915" advertised for a ridiculous sum. Missing the objective shade, objective replaced (broken original included), sans case, sans leather, sans everything.

See also here: https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=17789

[CINDERS]

Just a pic of my scout scope (Maker?) the leather is in really good condition but I do have a question for you chaps the carrying case is this grey/blue color.
I read somewhere on this site it was the air force color applied is this true all replies are appreciated. TIA

[Surpmil]

Just a pic of my scout scope (Maker?) the leather is in really good condition but I do have a question for you chaps the carrying case is this grey/blue color.
I read somewhere on this site it was the air force color applied is this true all replies are appreciated. TIA

RAF Regiment perhaps, a la Capt. C. Shore?

Peacetime military amusements: "if in doubt paint it"?

Speaking of these telescopes, I picked up a few NOS lenses from an estate full of surplus oddments recently. There are two lenses 2.682"/68.3mm dia. that are a close fit to each other on one surface. With my Geneva Lens Measure from the same estate, they measure +0.5 & -2.33(approx) and +2.0 & +0.75. Assembled thickness of the doublet is 0.52"

I suppose these could be from a TSR/Sig/GS type or even a REL Telescope, Observing, Snipers, but I don't feel like taking mine apart to find out!

There's a cemented doublet as well, 1.214"/30.86mm dia., 0.553"/14.07mm thick, +6.0 on one side and +2.5 on the other.

[Roger Payne]

Surpmil, I was moved to buy a copy of Sambrook's book after reading your thread above. Most interesting, though a little dry for reading cover to cover! I would certainly advise anyone interested to download the thesis, as my paperback copy of the book was very expensive - I suspect printed to order. However, I'm a bit old fashioned & when I buy a book I like it to have pages I can turn!

ATB.

[Peter Laidler]

I'll measure my new lens OG sets and confirm during the week. But the radius of the concave and convex mating curvatures is very close. And those figures don't seem to agree. The way we used to match up accidentally mismatched sets is to put a lick of spit in the concave part and place the convex part in. The spit will spread fully in a matched lens set

[Surpmil]

Could be I need more practice with the lens measure, but could also be it's US/NS!

[Surpmil]

Here's some tangible info at last on the Consolidated Optical Co. of Toronto, Ontario. An envelope from 1911 and an advert from 1916. Notice the reference to their manufacturing for the Canadian military. They changed addresses between those years, so probably wartime expansion.

Some more about CONSOL here: https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=17789