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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 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
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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

RHEL Senior Management, Open Day exhibits and photos used on exhibits (1964)

Thomas Gerald (Gerry) Pickavance William Allen William Allen brief biographical details Percy Bowles Percy Bowles brief biographical details Roger Hanna Roger Hanna brief biographical details Leo Hobbis Leo Hobbis brief biographical details Jack Howlett Jack Howlett brief biographical details Leslie Mullett Leslie Mullett brief biographical details Godfrey Stafford Godfrey Stafford brief biographical details James (Jim) Valentine James (Jim) Valentine brief biographical details Willian (Bill) Walkinshaw Willian (Bill) Walkinshaw brief biographical details John Willis John Willis brief biographical details

HL26135 HL26136. This photo was taken in R8 looking south; R1 west wing can be seen through the window HL26137 HL26138 HL26139 HL26140 HL26141 HL26142 HL26143 HL26144 HL26145 HL26146. The bike shed in the R1/R8 quadrangle can be seen through the window HL26147 HL26148 HL26149 HL26213 HL26216 HL26217 Separated orbit cyclotron HL26219 Corner by water tower, looking north east. Note the Tandem van der Graaff in the distance HL26229 Working model of centre of Variable Energy Cyclotron (VEC) HL26236 Harmonic pendulum HL26237 Polarised Proton Target HL26238 Hydrogen Targets HL26239 Section through spark chamber HL26242 Freon Bubble Chamber HL26243 How Nimrod works HL26244 Pre-injector EHT platform infra-red triggering system HL26245 Injector beam monitoring system HL26247 Spark chamber showing cosmic ray particle tracks (University College London, Westfield College London) HL26248 Pole face windings HL26249 Pole pieces

AJ4131 Nimrod injector: View of the output end of the machine showing the high energy drift space, beam chopped and debuncher cavity. Note the octant NIRNS logo AJ2828 General view of the PLA with the vacuum and liner lid off Tank 3 showing the drift tubes AJ4141 High Energy Physics: The alignment of counters around a hydrogen target in the Nimrod Experimental Hall before the start of an experiment HL20729 HL8856 AJ4139 50 MeV PLA: Setting up beam lines from the bending magnet in the new Experimental Area AJ4134 Nimrod injector: General view along the machine from the input end, showing the DC gun, low energy drift space and buncher cavity, the main accelerating tank, the high energy drift space and the debuncher HL21285 HL3583 HL14768 HL23992 AJ4138 50 MeV PLA: Aligning the N 1/2 spectrometer magnet onto a beam line in the new Experimental Area AJ4140 50 MeV PLA: New experimental area showing a beam line to an experiment set up by visiting university teams for the study of (p,2p) reactions HL18471 HL5062 HL11196 General view of the 50 MeV linear accelerator AJ4135 View of part of the Injector Room showing from left to right the 500 kV Cockcroft-Walton generator, the EHT platform, the polarised proton source and the DC gun HL11963 50 MeV PLA: View of the new experimental area showing the bending magnet and various beam lines AJ4143 A helium bag being fitted into a beam line in the Nimrod Experimental Hall to reduce the probability of protons being scattered out of the beam by collision with air molecules AJ7899 HL13633 British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber: Assembled chamber inside the vacuum tank showing nine illumination ports and two of the four oil diffusion pumps HL11442 HL18473 Nimrod Magnet Room: Installation of straight section box between the magnet octants AJ4142 High Energy Physics: A counter and sonic spark chamber array being set up in the Nimrod Experimental Hall to record the position of a charged particle to within 1/100th inch HL23617 HL3757 HL11195 HL25650 RHEL Apprentice HL25651 HL25652 HL25653 HL25654 HL25655 HL25656 HL25658 HL25659 HL25660 HL25661 HL25662 HL25663 HL25664 HL25665 HL25666 HL25667 How many scientists does it take to change a lightbulb? HL25668 R4 Electrical Substation. The edge of the Nimrod mound is just visible on the right HL25669 HL25670 R4 Electrical Substation HL25671 Testing the emergency fire alarm telephone system

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