WW2 british ALDIS lamp signalling daylight short range

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by rob love

Research Enterprises Ltd in Canada re-worked a lot of those no21mk5 instrument stands. The legs were shortened and the nomenclature on the head was either milled off or changed with the addition of REL and the Designation of C1A1 . There is some school of thought that they were for use with the no4T rifle setups.

Standard for outdoor ranges if you were using the 3-draw 'Scout' or 'Signalling' telescope, which is quite a long beast (with 'High' and 'Low' power eyepieces but everyone seemed to use the high magnification one).

The more modern spotting scopes with prisms and larger object lenses were a lot easier to use, but wouldn't fit those tripods.

Chris.
(Competitively rubbish with a rifle, much better with a .22 revolver.)