Frank Stone

[cgull]

Read obituary to above in todays Telegraph.
(he devised PLUTO...)

Writeup mentions one of the pipelines from Shanklin (to Cherbourg) Is there any remains of it showing? Is the route shown on chart??

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[Vara]

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.combinedops.com/pluto.htm>Fascinating stuff here</A>

<hr width=100% size=1>If it can't be fixed with a lump hammer dont fit it!

 

[gjeffery]

Partly following on from the posts on the PBO branch, concerning the relation between Chart Data and the OS Newlyn Datum. While an undergraduate in the 1970's, I was taught by a surveuor who had been in RE Survey, during the war, and who was also involved with the Channel Tunnel surveys. He told us of the difficulties in correlating the OSGB and the French grids, and also of the more intractable problem that the relative levels of France and England were (at that time) unknown.

After the war, there was a plan to use Pluto as a giant U tube level, to establish the relative levels, but due to the immediate post-war enthusiasm to decommission, this was never attempted.

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[peterb]

R V Jones, in his book "Most Secret War", also commented on the lack of continuity between the continental and British survey grids. The 'Oboe' blind navigation system was extremely accurate, but required the distances from the British transmitters to the continental targets to be known with equal accuracy. In the end it was resolved by an 'Oboe' guided raid on a known target, with the Belgian resistance then reporting back on the miss distances of the bombs.

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[l'escargot]

Some of the pipeline remains <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.holaccom.fsnet.co.uk/chine/page2.htm>here</A>

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