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Nash & Thompson

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Nash & Thompson was a British engineering firm that developed and produced hydraulically operated gun turrets for aircraft. [1]

30 relations: AI Mk. VIII radar, Archibald Frazer-Nash, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, Automatic Gun-Laying Turret, Avro Lancaster, Avro Manchester, Blackburn Botha, Boulton & Paul Ltd, Bristol Beaufort, Bristol Blenheim, Gun turret, H2S (radar), Handley Page Halifax, Hawker Hart, Hydraulic machinery, Hydraulics, Kingston upon Thames, Leigh Light, M1919 Browning machine gun, M2 Browning, Parnall, Periscope, Radar, Rose turret, Short Stirling, Short Sunderland, Tail gunner, Vickers K machine gun, Vickers Wellington, .303 British.

AI Mk. VIII radar

Airborne Interception radar, Mark VIII, or AI Mk.

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Archibald Frazer-Nash

Archibald Goodman Frazer Nash (30 June 1889 – 10 March 1965), was an early English motor car designer and engineer, who specialised in manufacturer of light ("cycle") and sports cars in England.

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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley

The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley was one of three British twin-engined, front line medium bomber types that were in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) at the outbreak of the Second World War.

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Automatic Gun-Laying Turret

The Automatic Gun-Laying Turret (AGLT) was a British radar-aimed sighting system fitted to some bomber turrets from 1944.

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Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber.

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Avro Manchester

The Avro 679 Manchester was a British twin-engine medium bomber developed and manufactured by the Avro aircraft company in the United Kingdom.

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Blackburn Botha

The Blackburn B.26 Botha was a British four-seat reconnaissance and torpedo bomber.

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Boulton & Paul Ltd

Boulton & Paul Ltd was a British general manufacturer from Norwich, England that became involved in aircraft manufacture.

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Bristol Beaufort

The Bristol Beaufort (manufacturer designation Type 152) was a British twin-engined torpedo bomber designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, and developed from experience gained designing and building the earlier Blenheim light bomber.

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Bristol Blenheim

The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol) which was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War.

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Gun turret

A gun turret is a location from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility, and some cone of fire.

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H2S (radar)

H2S was the first airborne, ground scanning radar system.

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Handley Page Halifax

The Handley Page Halifax was a Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War.

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Hawker Hart

The Hawker Hart was a British two-seater biplane light bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Hydraulic machinery

Hydraulic machines are machinery and tools that use liquid fluid power to do simple work.

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Hydraulics

Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.

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Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames, also known as Kingston, is an area in the southwest of Greater London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Leigh Light

The Leigh Light (abbreviated L/L) was a British World War II era anti-submarine device used in the Battle of the Atlantic.

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M1919 Browning machine gun

The M1919 Browning is a.30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

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M2 Browning

The M2 Machine Gun or Browning.50 Caliber Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun designed toward the end of World War I by John Browning.

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Parnall

Parnall was a British aircraft manufacturer, that evolved from a wood-working company before the First World War to a significant designer of military and civil aircraft into the 1940s.

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Periscope

A periscope is an instrument for observation over, around or through an object, obstacle or condition that prevents direct line-of-sight observation from an observer's current position.

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Radar

Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.

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Rose turret

The Rose turret (sometimes known as the Rose-Rice turret) was a gun turret armed with two American M2 Browning heavy machine guns — the standard American defensive ordnance piece used in both turreted and flexible mounts, for both the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator by 1943/44 — which was fitted to some British Avro Lancaster heavy bombers in 1944 and 1945.

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Short Stirling

The Short Stirling was a British four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War.

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Short Sunderland

The Short S.25 Sunderland was a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Tail gunner

A tail gunner or rear gunner is a crewman on a military aircraft who functions as a gunner defending against enemy fighter attacks from the rear, or "tail", of the plane.

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Vickers K machine gun

Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gun The Vickers K machine gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated (Vickers G.O.) in British service, was a rapid-firing machine gun developed and manufactured for use in aircraft by Vickers-Armstrongs.

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Vickers Wellington

The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber.

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.303 British

The.303 British (designated as the 303 British by the C.I.P. and SAAMI) or 7.7×56mmR, is a calibre (with the bore diameter measured between the lands as is common practice in Europe) rimmed rifle cartridge first developed in Britain as a black-powder round put into service in December 1888 for the Lee–Metford rifle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_%26_Thompson

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