Need to know......

[Grant Bowker]

For many years in the 60s and 70s (perhaps into early 80s) there was what I thought of as a radar trailer on the Montreal Road campus of NRC near their Radio and Electrical labs. It was a full trailer with dual tyres on at least the rear, colour was silver/grey. There was a square platform/tower at one end of the frame (front?) and a house structure at the other (rear?). Initially it was in the open, so of course the local children could climb and investigate until a commissionaire arrived to chase us away. I think there was another trailer close by but I don't remember much about it so it must have been something more mundane, in my view at the time. Perhaps a house body for more electronics and operators? Does this match what you were looking for? If so, I can try to remember more about the trailers. At the same period there was also a 6 wheeled CMP, probably the yellow ex Communications Canada or whatever with flatbed body, that was at Vimy House just before they closed for the move to the new War Museum. I'm sorry to say that we didn't show the proper reverence for the CMP, but at least we didn't follow the present trend to vandalise things in the name of grafitti art. You are right that NRC's scrap yards and other areas whether public or otherwise were/are a treasure trove.