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News 89 Autumn 2019 MUSEUM OF COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION TRUST Transmitting The Museum of Communication Foundation Members’ Newsletter Professional Curatorial Adviser: Dallas Mechan, Fife Council No. 89 Autumn/Winter 2019 £1.90 to non-members Executive Board Members: Ian Archibald Dave Pack Dorothy Brankin Andrew Starling (Treasurer) Ken Horne (Vice-Chairman) Prof. Tom Stevenson (Chairman) Marion McLean (Charity Secretary) Subscriptions and changes of address should be sent to the Membership Secretary (see page 19). The Museum of Communication Foundation Trust is a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland no. 146894. Registered office: 131 High Street, Burntisland KY3 9AA. It is a registered Scottish charity (no. SCO22004), Fully Accredited as a museum by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council, a member of Museums Galleries Scotland and the Fife Museums Forum. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.mocft.co.uk Tel: 01592 874836 Air Cadet visit rounds off a successful summer season! See Page 9! PRESERVING YESTERDAY FOR TOMORROW 20 MUSEUM OF COMMUNICATION Goudie Lecture Information Request and/or Membership Application/Renewal for 2019-20 Programme 2019 Name __________________________________________________________________ Throughout 2019, we have been offering a series of Address ________________________________________________________________ lectures dedicated to the memory of the late ________________________________________________________________________ Dr George Goudie (left), the Museum’s great friend and benefactor. Without his financial support, we Postcode ________________ Tel. No. ____________________________________ would not have been able to purchase our E-mail ________________________________________ Date ____________________ permanent home in Burntisland. I am happy to receive Transmitting by e-mail. Please use the above address. SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER I am interested in the Museum of Communication. Please send me more details. I wish to become a member/renew my membership of the Foundation: 11.30am with lunch to follow Ordinary membership (min £15) £_________________ Christmas Special - 'The Stone of Scone' Unwaged membership (min £7.50) £_________________ Dr David Caldwell Group or family membership (min £20) £_________________ I wish to make a donation £_________________ ADMISSION Total enclosed £_________________ Members: £4 (lecture only), £8 (lecture + lunch) (Cheques payable to the Museum of Communication Foundation Trust, please) Non-members: £5 (lecture only), Please send me a Standing Order Mandate form £10 (lecture + lunch) Please send me bank details so I can arrange a regular internet banking payment If you are a UK taxpayer, the MoC can receive tax back at the current rate for PRE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL every £1 you give - at no cost to you. Please tick the box below. I want all donations I have made to the Museum of Communication Foundation To book a seat contact [email protected] Trust in the past four years, and any donations I make in the future, to be Gift or tel. 01506 823424 Aided until I notify you otherwise. To qualify for Gift Aid, you must pay an amount of UK income tax and/or capital gains tax, at least equal to the tax that we reclaim on your donations in the appropriate tax year. Tax year is 6 April one year to 5 April the next. Current rate Merry Christmas is 25p in the £ as at 6 April 2019. Company Reg No. 146894, Charity Reg No. SCO22004 and Best Wishes for 2020 Please return this form to: Membership Secretary Museum of Communication Foundation Trust to all our Members and Friends 47 Grahamsdyke Road BO’NESS EH51 9ED 2 19 rocket broke away in an arc to the all the bridges on their journey. The EDITORIAL CONTENTS east. We continued to see the two space industry loves to talk in When does a new decade start? Will News & Views 4 flight paths for a few more seconds acronyms. The CRS 17 departed LP the ‘twenties’ start in 2020 or 2021? A Apology and Correction 5 then the sky was dark. After about 8 40 and OCISLY captured the 1st mathematician would say 2021, but TV Comes to Scotland minutes we witnessed the 1st stage stage rocket. (CRS =Commercial for the vast majority, it is 2020. Malcolm Baird 6 rocket approaching the horizon to Resupply Services; LP=Launch Pad; This means that, next year, we are the NE and heard a long, low deep OCISLY=Of Course I Still Love You looking at a whole new decade. If we Film Review: The Current War David & Sheila. Brown rumble as it approached its landing is the name of the drone ship.) continue the theme of centenaries, 8 zone on the drone ship. We went We have come a long way in 50 then the 1920s give us some major Air Cadet Visit 9 back to bed elated to have witnessed years. Space has become a developments, especially in the fields 2019: The Year in Pictures 10 a successful launch. The supply commercial arena with a number of of radio and recorded music. Cable Telegraphy and Standardising vessel docked at the ISS on the different companies competing for 2019 moved us away from the Unit of Electrical Resistance Monday. business, Spacex being only one. marking World War I centenaries and Peter Grant & John Thompson 12 Chris gave some interesting and back into a more general Exhibition, Technology has advanced that Out & About: A Launch from quirky facts in his talk. Cape centred on the 50th Anniversary of rockets are being re-captured and Cape Canaveral Canaveral has at least 40 launch the Moon Landing, but also featuring reused. We no longer wait with Marion McLean 16 pads today. Spacex Rockets are bated breath as each rocket is the technology of several different assembled in Hawthorne, California launched. A look at www.space.com periods. The 80th Anniversary of the and are taken by road to Florida. will let you know when launches are outbreak of World War II in 1939 also of World War II. VE and VJ Day Bear that in mind if you plan a road scheduled whether it is from Florida featured. commemorations will take place in trip! You don't want to be stuck or from a myriad of launch sites 2020 needs to be a year of fresh various places during the year. This behind that convoy if you are in a around the globe. A quick look will approaches for a new decade. However, does all this put too much is where YOU come in. hurry. The website Reddit has posts show how frequent they are today. The emphasis on war? How do we get the of sightings of the convoys. Rockets No fanfare, no worldwide coverage Museum’s most active members will balance right? What key events and have a diameter of 12 feet (or just the Parcelforce and Yodel of meet on Wednesday 27 November to technologies should we be PLEASE LET US thereabout) – so they can pass under space going about their business. start planning for next year, but we projecting? need to know what others think too. KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! Please send us your ideas. YOUR TRANSMITTING Contact details are on the back page. There have already been some AGM suggestions - 2020 marks the 80th The report of the AGM, which took We have almost 200 people on our mailing list, almost half of Anniversary of the Battle of Britain place on 26 October 2019, will whom (including most of our overseas members) are happy to and the 75th Anniversary of the end appear in the next edition. receive Transmitting electronically. This saves us over £300 per year in postage costs! Additionally, contributing members 2020 Exhibition - We need your help! receive their copies in “full, glorious technicolor” - although the For a successful Exhibition in 2020, we need: printed version remains in monochrome! l YOUR ideas - tell us what you’d like to be featured l YOUR expertise - come along and help us put it all together If you’re able to help us save money in this way, please l YOUR support - volunteer as a guide or help in other ways let us know - Eds Contact details are on the back page. 18 3 which has Elon Musk as a principal leads. There would be no launch until News & Views shareholder. They deliver supplies the repair was completed. This was OBITUARY As a lifelong railway enthusiast, he and equipment to the International duly done and the launch was DAVID BYTHEWAY undertook extensive work for the Space Station on a regular basis. rescheduled for 03:11 on Friday Scottish Railway Preservation They are also notable as their first morning. The alarm was set and at Society. It was for him a labour of love stage rockets are landed on a drone 03:00 we made our way to the and played a vital role in its success. ship a few miles offshore so the rocket beach. David’s work for the Museum was can be refubished and used again. A small group had gathered unseen by all save a few Members, However, launches are never including Chris who was browsing but the advice and guidance he gave straightforward and time can be the live feed from Spacex. We eagerly over the years helped us immensely. spent waiting, as with Parcelforce and scanned the horizon to the north, The picture opposite is taken from Yodel. Arriving at Port Canaveral, we seeing people doing the same along We were greatly saddened to hear of the Order of Service at David’s were excited. A launch was the beach and on a nearby pier. At the death of David Bytheway, a funeral on 26 September 2019 at scheduled for the Wednesday. Not so 03:20 Chris announced the launch journalist who did a great deal behind Tillicoultry Parish Church. It shows - the adverts had “Cancelled” written had been abandoned.
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