Re: Neglected wartime heritage...

Martin

Do you believe that anybody is going to respond to this?

I don't wish to comment on Transport Complex.

However Hut 1 is not demolished and in reasonably good order and partly 
used by David White as a Diplomatic Wireless Museum. As it is in the 
heart of the Park I would no have expected it to be at any risk.

For those who are not already aware the Bombe was not a decoder. Its 
role was to find the settings for the day on a given network so that 
Decoding could take place in the Decoding Room at BP. Modified Typex 
machine to act like Enigma Machines were used. We have made one of these 
modifications which will be on display at BP from time to time when a 
programme has been worked out.

Regards


>Letters to the Editor
>---------------------
>
>The Times
>September 13, 2006
>
>Neglected wartime heritage
>
>Sir, The successful reconstruction from scratch of one of the
>electromechanical decoders that broke the German Enigma machine (report,
>Sept 7) sends a buzz of excitement to everyone determined to preserve
>Bletchley Park, the code-breaking HQ, as a vital part of our wartime
>heritage. Sadly, Hut No 1, where the machine was originally housed, has
>already fallen to the demolition gang.
>
>The transport complex is likely to follow. These buildings were needed to
>garage vehicles and plan the logistics of transporting the 12,000 people
>who worked at Bletchley. Records reveal that, in one week in 1944, there
>were 28,321 coach journeys covering 25,138 miles and using 115 drivers -
>just to ferry the workforce back and forth to billets in the
>Buckinghamshire countryside.
>
>Clearly, this was a transport project on the grand scale, and preserving
>the complex in recognition of the support services who kept the
>codebreaking machinery whirring is essential. Despite having other
>problems on her mind just now, it is to be hoped that Tessa Jowell will
>find some way to help.
>
>GUY THOMAS
>London SW13
>
>
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2354792.html
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2346214,00.html

-- 
John Harper