You're right Chris, the Remote control unit plugs into one of the leads of the leads of the control unit so the two do need to be close together. Alas there's barely enough room for the A and B side aerial cabling above the radio let alone something big and bulky like a remote control unit. The cable reel is mounted on the outside rear of the turret and has a rotary junction built into the inside of the reel (I posted a couple of photos of it on the wireless forum last year). It's unfortunate that I don't have any specific mounting details for the wireless to copy... I'll just have to dream something up that's reasonable.
Re the radio, the last time I looked at this radio must have been close to 20 years ago. I've just recently pulled it out of storage and mounted it in the back of the turret. I'd be surprised if the data plate had been taken from a different radio and put on this one. That said I think it was me who fitted the watch holder way back when I got it as the original was broken. It is also possible that some of the knobs may have been swapped out at some point (although I don't recall actually doing it myself). I'll make contact with you separately to find out which bits are wrong on the radio... I may have another donor British set somewhere that I could pirate some bits off... to improve its appearance for the rivet counters....
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