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Further reading □ OverviewAccelerator at TRE (1947 to 1950)PLA: Installation in Building 412 (1956-1957)Me and my PLA Part IV (1957)Magnet Sector engineering at Metropolitan Vickers40 photographs of NimrodConstruction of Nimrod (1957)Miscellaneous buildings (1958-1964)Building construction (1962-1963)Nimrod: Machine equipment (1960s)Nimrod: Various photographs (1960s)Nimrod: Construction and set up (1959-64)VEC, PLA and Nimrod (c.1963)Album No1: Early Nimrod experiments (1964-1966)Various accelerators (1950s-1960s)Miscellaneous building work (1962-1964)RHEL Senior Management, Open Day exhibits, Photos used on exhibits (1964)Nimrod inauguration (24th April 1964)Press Contact photos (April 1964)Nimrod Engineering Group: Magnet Album no.2 (1967)Displays for RHEL Open Days (July 1970) and Rutherford Centenary (October 1971)BC and PPT (1971)Rutherford Centenary (29th October 1971)Opening of the R61 Library (26 November 1974)Loose photographs and slidesLoose colour photographsSlides
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OverviewAccelerator at TRE (1947 to 1950)PLA: Installation in Building 412 (1956-1957)Me and my PLA Part IV (1957)Magnet Sector engineering at Metropolitan Vickers40 photographs of NimrodConstruction of Nimrod (1957)Miscellaneous buildings (1958-1964)Building construction (1962-1963)Nimrod: Machine equipment (1960s)Nimrod: Various photographs (1960s)Nimrod: Construction and set up (1959-64)VEC, PLA and Nimrod (c.1963)Album No1: Early Nimrod experiments (1964-1966)Various accelerators (1950s-1960s)Miscellaneous building work (1962-1964)RHEL Senior Management, Open Day exhibits, Photos used on exhibits (1964)Nimrod inauguration (24th April 1964)Press Contact photos (April 1964)Nimrod Engineering Group: Magnet Album no.2 (1967)Displays for RHEL Open Days (July 1970) and Rutherford Centenary (October 1971)BC and PPT (1971)Rutherford Centenary (29th October 1971)Opening of the R61 Library (26 November 1974)Loose photographs and slidesLoose colour photographsSlides

Forty photographs of Nimrod collated by Chief Engineer, Percy Bowles (late 1950s onwards)

A small album of photos collated by Chief Engineer Percy Bowles OBE. There are actually 45 RHEL photos plus one duplicate and 13 from Marston Excelsior Ltd but who's counting?

Album front cover Album inner cover HL3583 Cutaway view of Nimrod by J Eggleton Engineering (6 July 1961) HLB4951 View of cross-section through RF cavity (September 1961) HL7001 Scale drawing of Nimrod (14 November 1961) A5565 Opening up site July 1957; general view of bevatron site progress from roof of B418 (21 August 1957) A5939 Excavation of "Bowles Hole" (28 November 1957) A6067 Setting out foundations of magnets (8 January 1958) A6586 Steel reinforcement for magnet foundations (19 March 1958) A6985 Magnet Room foundations in course of construction (5 June 1958) A7015 Construction of Magnet Room with Experimental Area in foreground (1 December 1958) A7263 View of shielding bridge taken from Experimental Area (4 March 1959) HL4918 View of shielding blocks taken from Experimental Area; Building Research Station instruments (21 September 1961) A7157 Construction of Magnet Room and magnet ring (1 January 1959) A7945 Construction of Experimental Area (14 October 1959) A7305 Constructing the roof of Magnet Room (18 March 1959) A7673 General view of Magnet Room prior to machine construction (13 July 1959) A7666 General view of Magnet Room (13 July 1959) A9059 Completed magnet section (5 May 1960) HL3254 Clamping pole pieces with pole piece jack (19 July 1961) HL4139 Pole piece installation by Hilger and Watts Instruments (10 August 1961) HL4123 Pole piece installation by Hilger and Watts Instruments (10 August 1961) HL4130 Locating a pole piece in magnet throat; pole piece installation by Hilger and Watts Instruments (10 August 1961) 2815 Manufacturer's photo of welds: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2816 Manufacturer's photo of welds: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2817 Manufacturer's photo of welds: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2818 Manufacturer's photo of welds: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2819 Manufacturer's photo of welds: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2839 Manufacturer's photo of readying the octant for transport: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2840 Manufacturer's photo of readying the octant for transport: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2841 Manufacturer's photo of readying the octant for transport: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2842 Manufacturer's photo of readying the octant for transport: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2843 Manufacturer's photo of readying the octant for transport: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 2844 Manufacturer's photo of readying the octant for transport: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 3070 Manufacturer's photo of readying the octant for transport: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) 3071 Manufacturer's photo of readying the octant for transport: Marston Excelsior Ltd, Wolverhampton (late 1950s) A8178 Early stages of magnet erection (30 November 1959) HL1950 Installation of magnet coils (11 April 1961) HL319 Section of magnet showing coil ends (27 January 1961) HL3065 Cooling circuit for magnet coils; ICI terylene hose covers (6 June 1961) A10373 View of magnet octant after assembly of magnet coils (20 December 1960) HL4124 View of magnet throat prior to installation of pole pieces by Hilger and Watts Instruments (10 August 1961) HL8657 Testing bay for vacuum vessels (7 February 1962) HL1476 Testing a vacuum chamber (27 March 1961) HL7516 View of octant with outer chamber installed; outer vacuum vessel installed in Octant 4 (7 December 1961) HL7517 Close-up of outer vessel chamber in position in magnet throat (7 December 1961) HL11442 Inner vacuum vessel being installed by UKAEA Engineering Group (5 July 1962) HL3984 RF Accelerating cavity (1 August 1961) HL18473 Straight section box being installed between magnet octants (22 May 1963) HL18471 Installation of beam extraction box and general view of octants (22 May 1963) HL18474 Magnet octant complete with vacuum pumps (22 May 1963) A7891 HT equipment for injector (29 September 1959) A7899 DC gun for injector (29 September 1959) HL5062 RF linac and vacuum tank for injector (29 September 1961) HL18467 Injector high energy drift space and debuncher (22 May 1963) A10050 Construction of main rotary plant foundation block; alternator bed R3 (27 October 1960) HL14391 Lining up rotary plant for magnet power supplies (30 November 1962) HL8386 Converter equipment for magnet power supplies (23 January 1962) HL3757 Converter equipment for magnet power supplies; bus bar rectifier units; Brown Boverie plant in R4 (24 July 1961) HL18475 Magnets for Beam Transport Equipment in Heavy Lab prior to assembly in Experimental Area (22 May 1963)

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