The "C" Prefix on Canadian Wireless Equipment

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Chris Suslowicz

The WS11 was built in the UK and Canada, Australia was (I think) supplied from the UK.

Chris.

Actually the 11 set was built here , AWA made around 6000 of them . Quite a few of these have been seen in the UK recently , these sets are recent imports by collectors . The AWA set was not suitable for jungle use , the cotton wiring looms were a disaster in the tropics with fungal growth problems .
When the war finished the Govt. surplus them very quickly , many were never issued but kept in storage because of its unsuitable design for tropical areas.

The sets are fairly common here . The other problem with them was they used very low quality zinc based castings for the power supply genemotor frames , these frames crack and distort badly . Mike