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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 VickersConstruction 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)Album No1: Early Nimrod experiments (1964-1966)Various accelerators (1950s-1960s)Miscellaneous building work (1962-1963)RHEL Senior Management, Open Day exhibits, Photos used on exhibits (1964)Nimrod inauguration (24th 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)Loose monochrome photographsLoose colour photographsPhotographic slides

Me and my PLA Part IV (1957)

The title would indicate that this is a set of photographs compiled by someone, probably an Apprentice, as a record of their work. This album is part IV; the other parts are as yet undiscovered.

Album cover 182. A5437 Arrival of Tank 3 vacuum envelope (25 May 1957); 183. Lower half of Tank 3 vacuum envelope (5 June 1957, photo missing) 184. A5461 Moving lower half of Tank 3 vacuum envelope on trolleys (5 June 1957); 185. A5438 General view of tunnel showing lower half of Tank 3 vacuum envelope in position (12 June 1957) 186. Mk 2 GGT mounted alongside Tank 1 (4 September 1957); 187. A5661 Tanks 1, 2, 3 view from output end 188. Tanks 1, 2, 3 from input end showing Mk II GGT on Tank 1 (4 September 1957); 189. A5660 Tunnel general view showing modulation cubicles (4 September 1957) 190. A5782 Arrival of Tank 2 lines (19 September 1957); 191. A5717 Unloading liner, Tank 2 (19 September 1957) 192. A5716 Tank 2 liner on trolleys (19 September 1957); 193. A5714 Arrival of Tank 2 liner (19 September 1957) 194. A5781 Tank 2 liner in position (20 September 1957); 195. A5872 View towards input end (28 November 1957) 196. A5984 Three inch 50 ohm variable power diverted (28 November 1957); 197. A5875 Inverter lid of Liner 2 showing flattener tuner (28 November 1957) 198. A5983 High power co-axial "Trombone" line lengthener (28 November 1957); 199. A5982 High power co-axial liner bridge for dividing power in ratio 1.6/1 (28 November 1957) 200. A6088 Unloading liner packing Tank 3 (15 January 1958); 201. A6087 Removing liner packing Tank 3 (15 January 1958) 202. A6090 Moving Tank 3 liner into building (15 January 1958); 203. A6089 Lower half of Tank 3 liner (15 January 1958) 204. A6042 Tank 2 liner in position with lid raised (17 January 1958); 205. A6091 Moving Tank 3 liner through Injector Room on trolleys (22 January 1958) 206. General view of tunnel with Tank 3 liner (Lower half) in position (23 January 1958); 207. A6071 Optical alignment gear on Tank 2 (12 February 1958) 208. A6070 General view of tunnel from output end, lids off Tanks 2 and 3 liner (12 February 1958); 209. A6073 Power dividing network (12 February 1958) 210. A6072 Control desk under construction (12 February 1958); 211. A6109 Refrigerated baffle for oil lamp (27 February 1958) 212. A6579 PLA building Experimental Area extension (19 May 1958); 213. A6578 PLA building Experimental Area extension (19 May 1958) 214. A6581 PLA Experimental Area extension (19 May 1958); 215. A6582 Cable duct excavations below possible future extension to PLA (19 May 1 958) 216. Markings on Tank 1 drift tubes due to RF fields (10 September 1958); 217. A6735 Effect of RF sparking on Tank 1 drift tube (10 September 1958) 218. A6786 Alignment of drift tubes in Liner 2 (7 October 1958); 219. A6785 Six inch RF field line for Tank 1 with vacuum shut-off valve (7 October 1958) 220. View from output end Liner 3 with most drift tubes fitted (7 October 1958); 221. A6966 Perturbation measurement gear on Tank 3 (25 November 1958) 222. Tank 2 feed-line loop matching measurements (25 November 1958); 223. 2 MW 200 MC/S (mega-cycles per second) klystron (25 November 1958) 1. PLA Control Room (30 July 1959); 2. PLA Control Desk (27 July 1959) 3. PLA Control Desk (27 July 1959); 4. PLA Control Desk (27 July 1959) 5. General view along machine input end with accelerator tube on right; 6. General view Tank 1 in foreground 7. Main accelerator tube on right, high power RF amplifier on left (30 July 1959); 8. Feed line from GGT to Tank 1 showing six inch line and vacuum valve on vacuum envelope (27 July 1959) 9. Machine from above showing feed line to Tank 2, from over GGT only Tank 3 liner lid removed exposing drift tube (27 July 1959); 10. A5.9 (27 July 1959) 11. A5148 Vacuum envelope and liner lids removed from Tank 3 showing drift tubes (27 July 1959); 12. AJ2828 General view of the machine with vacuum and liner lid off Tank 3 showing the drift tubes (30 July 1959) 13. Buncher resonator outside its vacuum envelope (4 November 1959); 14. Buncher resonator in vacuum envelope with the cover removed (14 November 1959) 15. Injector and buncher; 16. View of buncher vacuum envelope from TI (January 1960) 17. Buncher vacuum envelope (January 1960); 18. Beam deflector electrode system between injector and buncher (January 1960) 19. Input end TI showing beam monitoring Faraday cup chamber and focusing quadrupoles round beam pipe (January 1960); 20. Beam monitoring equipment at output end of Tank 3 (16 October 1959) 21. Early arrangement of feed lines combining the output of two GGT amplifying valves to feed Tank 2 (January 1960); 22. Co-axial line bridge for combining the output powers of two GGTs to feed Tank 2 (January 1960) 23. GGT valve trolley, screening cage removed from valve (27 July 1959); 24. Concrete screening wall at the end of the machine during construction 25. Experimental area (21 June 1960); 26. 200 MC/S klystron (21 June 1960) 27. 200 MC/S klystron (21 June 1960); 28 and 29. PLA exhibition (21 June 1960) 30. PLA exhibition (21 June 1960); 31. Experimental Area (July 1960) 32. Experimental Area beam pipes and quadrupoles beyond beam bending magnet; 33. Experimental Area beam bending magnet and output beam pipes 34. Experimental Area D(p,2p) scattering experiment for Dr R Griffiths(?); 35. High-speed shut-off valve and beam quadrupoles between screening wall and bending magnet 36. Diagrammatic section of grounded grid triode; 37. GGT anode assembly 38 and 39. 200 MC/S GGT 40. 200 MC/S GGT

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