The Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
Instrument - Artillery director (No 6 Mk II with tripod), c1924
... Artillery director (No 6 Mk II with tripod)...No 6 director mk ii..., and on side with 'DIRECTOR No 6 MK II / COOKE TROUGHTON & SIMMS LTD... with 'DIRECTOR No 6 MK II / COOKE TROUGHTON & SIMMS LTD / 1924 / No 1126 ...
Possibly related to the range-finding equipment sent from England for dismantling during the 1940s so University of Melbourne Physics staff could develop their own equipment. Related to object 463.2Green painted brass director mounted on a grey metal base plate. Secured to a wooden tripod with coated copper wire cord linking tripod legs.Theodolite body engraved with: the broad arrow on top, and on side with 'DIRECTOR No 6 MK II / COOKE TROUGHTON & SIMMS LTD / 1924 / No 1126'artillery instruments, wwii artillery, no 6 director mk ii, optical equipment, cooke troughton & simms
