Re: 'BOMBE-Rebuild' article & photos in Mail on Sunday

The article states there were 210 Bombes.  Is this figure correct and is 
there a list of their locations please?

Bill Ridgeway

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> 29th March 2009
>
> The Wider View :
> Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by two years
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> By Mail On Sunday Reporter
>
> The rows of silver dials and tangle of scarlet wires look more like a
> telephone exchange.
>
> But this is the inside of the Turing Bombe, the part-electronic,
> part-mechanical code-breaking machine and forerunner of the modern
> computer, which cracked 3,000 messages a day sent on Nazi Enigma machines
> during the Second World War.
>
> There were 210 such bookcase-like Bombes that gave Britain advance warning
> of Hitler's plans and shortened the conflict by two years..../snip/
>
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165535/
> The-Wider-View-Nazi-codebreaker-shortened-Second-World-War-years.html
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> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-041C8EA9000005DC-759_634x418_popup.jpg
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> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-0412A5EA000005DC-1_634x377_popup.jpg
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> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-0412A762000005DC-903_634x425_popup.jpg
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> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-041C7D35000005DC-708_634x448_popup.jpg
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