- catalogue number: 9.201995;
- name of artifact: Sighting Telescope REL 22C Mk. II 1941;
- date of production: 1941;
- materials of manufacture: optical glass, lacquered copper-alloy, & steel(?);
- maker: Research Enterprises Limited (REL), Leaside ON;
- provenance: gift of the DTM founder;
- condition: complete, and with its original case. Optics excellent, and eyepiece retains its reticle;
- notes: REL was a war-time crown corporation. Machines for producing the REL sighting scope were purchased from Bausch & Lomb in Rochester, NY, and expertise in the form of personnel and training was obtained from the same firm. The optical glass was from a melt produced in Leaside. These 1x sighting telescopes are said to have been fitted to 2 pounder, 6 pounder, and Bofors anti-aircraft guns. When Rudolph Dorner was young he obtained one of these instruments, and subjected it to independent educational disassembly, and experiment;
- comparanda: Sudbury, Royal Canadian Legion, Dr. Fred Starr Branch 76, Artifacts & Historical Memorabilia
- literature:
- W.E.K. Middelton, Physics at the National Research Council of Canada, 1929–1952 (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1979), pp. 110-113.
Type:
Telescope
Description:
Sighting Telescope REL 22C Mk. II 1941
Exhibit Number:
0009.201995
Exhibit Name:
Sighting Telescope REL 22C Mk. II 1941
Production Circa:
Production Year:
1941
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