No 9 MkIII Telescope Storage Case 1944 (fortress & Coastal artillery unit)

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Old WW2 Box measuring 79cm x 19cm x 13cm , up till recently used as a toolbox !!No 9 Mk III Telescope storage case made from wood. The case is painted olive drab and features screwed metal hinges and two leather carry straps. Marked on the lid is 'TELESCOPE SIGHTING NO 9 MARK III. OBSERVATORY CANBERRA 1944 D (BROAD ARROW) D NO 84.' Internally the box is laid out to accommodate the telescope No 9 Mark III telescope transportation box used by Australian Army and Navy heavy long range artillery units during the Second World War for telescope storage. Telescopic sighting instruments were used by long range heavy artillery units of the Australian Army and Navy during the Second World War for coastal defence installations. This box held a telescope manufactured at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (CSO) on Mount Stromlo, Canberra. A small observatory was established on Mount Stromlo in 1911, becoming the CSO in 1924. In July 1940, at the suggestion of the observatory's director Dr Richard Woolley, the observatory ceased almost all peacetime activities and devoted its resources to making optical munitions. The Munitions Annexe made prisms and optical lenses, and all the grinding and polishing machines used were designed in the observatory and made either in its own workshop or in a workshop in Canberra. By the end of the war, the observatory read more

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