Balloon Command

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No, don't bother. Two of the pics above are fine. :)

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Hello, I am a researcher for a PBS documentary about a scientist name Alfred Lee Loomis. We are interested in using one of the images in this post in our film and are wondering if you can provide a hi res copy of the image. The image is the "operating parts of the standard Wild Kite, Mark IV Series I, Balloon Winch."
Please be in touch if you can provide a hi res version of the image.
Thank you!
Mattie
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stickman wrote:Being mechanically curious, I wanted some more info about the balloons
and how the winches that released them up, and hauled them down, operate.

This is from a WAAF that used to operate BBs. Makeup for the Balloon:

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Also from her, the operating parts of the standard Wild Kite, Mark IV Series I, Balloon Winch.

I took the Liberty of snagging two separate book photos, and cobbling them together, with my Paint Proggy,
for my better understanding of the mechanism.
I hate confusion!

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This from the best Resource available on the http://www.. about Balloon Command.
Balloon Barrage Reunion Club
http://www.bbrclub.org/index.html

So.. I see the theoretical drawing.. drawn as seen by mechanic monkey such as myself.
Thankyou! Balloon Barrage Reunion Club. :)

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Yes, I want the BIG PICTURE!
Not some fuzzy little dot!

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Mattie,

I do not own the original documents or the images. Found the pictures here:
https://www.historicflyingclothing.com/ ... UQqdNyQyUl

Historic Flying Clothing sold the original documents. They may be able to help you find the owner, and the complete right page of the drawing.

I just cobbled two images from there, together for my better understanding.
I have no original hi-res image of it.

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Re: Balloon Command

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Thank you!
stickman wrote:Mattie,

I do not own the original documents or the images. Found the pictures here:
https://www.historicflyingclothing.com/ ... UQqdNyQyUl

Historic Flying Clothing sold the original documents. They may be able to help you find the owner, and the complete right page of the drawing.

I just cobbled two images from there, together for my better understanding.
I have no original hi-res image of it.

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I love PBS!
Aloha!
Jeffrey

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Re: Balloon Command

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Hi Stick,
I have belatedly read your barrage balloon post from February re Bristol Docks being in the wrong place. I am not sure from the map where they were or where you moved them to.
All I want to let you know is that there are two docks in the Bristol area, one is right in the centre of the city along the river Avon about six miles from the Severn and the other is at Avonmouth where the Avon and Severn meet.

Bristol Docks in the centre of the city was a busy dock in the 1940's but was being superseded by Avonmouth which was situated on the north side of the Avon at its mouth. The large dock on the south side of the Avon at Portbury is a post war construction. Hope this is of help.

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filtonboy wrote:Hi Stick,
I have belatedly read your barrage balloon post from February re Bristol Docks being in the wrong place. I am not sure from the map where they were or where you moved them to.
All I want to let you know is that there are two docks in the Bristol area, one is right in the centre of the city along the river Avon about six miles from the Severn and the other is at Avonmouth where the Avon and Severn meet.

Bristol Docks in the centre of the city was a busy dock in the 1940's but was being superseded by Avonmouth which was situated on the north side of the Avon at its mouth. The large dock on the south side of the Avon at Portbury is a post war construction. Hope this is of help.

f.b.
I am sure you must have spent some time looking at Bristol
in Rowan's model, so you know that it was pretty horrendously
malformed. I reworked the north half, down to about a quarter
mile north of the Avon, but south of that, and west to the
Severn estuary, is still in desperate need of help. I wrote the
following (on the modding forum) in 2015 when looking over my
work on it, realizing there was too much to fix then:

"I notice first, that
Bristol is really very poorly made; the river Avon (another one -
for such a small country they sure duplicate the names of
rivers a lot - something to do with the locals never travelling
far enough to be more than walking distance back home for
dinner - maybe all the names are archaic for "river", like the
Don - or perhaps so easily disoriented that they wander into
the next watershed without realizing it) anyway, it is very poorly
rendered, it just sort of stops at the point the estuary is about
50m wide. Pretty shoddy work. It goes on my endless to-do list.

Then I notice a spot with those great bloody warehouses you and
I detest, some sort of target, on the south bank of the mouth of the
river, and sitting on farm fields. This turns out to be "Bristol Docks",
a truly horrendous misrepresentation. As I recall they even have it
on the wrong side of the river mouth. This is another one for the
to-do list."

It is still awaiting my attention. Prior to that, though, is a request in the
queue for ministering to the needs of the coast of Pas de Calais, south from
Boulogne to Abbeville, which I may get a chance to work on sometime after
the placements I have compromised by tuning up east Kent have been repaired.
There are a whole array of treelines which now cut across streams and otherwise
wander where they no longer belong.

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Re: Balloon Command

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Hi P.V.,
Yes you are right it was unrecognisable to me in the original Rowan.

I have not actually flown over it in 2.13 and was referring to the map Stickman put up in the post. Thank you for your efforts. My post was not meant as a criticism of either of you but just trying to give you an idea of where the docks are/were.

As I said I genuinely had no idea of where they were moved from or to. If I can help you with some local knowledge please let me know.

Many of those river names were Celtic or Saxon as are the villages. My favourite village name is Nempnett Thrubwell . The name Nempnett Thrubwell is believed to mean 'The grove at the village well' from the Celtic nemett and the Old English wiell.[3] :D

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