Port Moresby. 1944-03. An electric message conveyor designed to carry messages between Signal ...

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby
Accession Number 040759
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Veron, Donald Norwood
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Port Moresby. 1944-03. An electric message conveyor designed to carry messages between Signal Office, 18th Australian Lines of Communication Signals and Headquarters, New Guinea Force. Messages in the conveyor were protected from the weather by a lid. The system ran on two sets of wire rails, one up and the other down, over a distance of 400 yards. This photograph shows the rails terminal at the Signal Office.