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Well spotted, PW. Although the Imperial War Museum list this device as "Telescope, Identification, AA, MkIII (Rangefinder, cased)", if you read the 1938 instructions here there is no mention of any rangefinding going on at all. In fact, it is two telescopes laid end-to-end; the junior ATS girl would pick up the intruder using the low-power telescope, then the senior ATS girl would identify it using the high-power side, and the azimuth and elevation would be read off and passed to the central computer (human!).
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"Why are there two eyepieces, Ethel?"
"It says here it's to avoid delay if either operator happens to be powdering her nose when an intruder approaches."
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"I can't see a damned thing, Agnes. Next time you buy us tickets to a fancy dress "Take That" concert, do try to get some a bit closer to the front!"
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I hear they're recruiting UAV Pilots ... that coukd be fun!"
I know it seems a bit excessive to have two of the lasses manning one telescope, Carruthers, but they're at a bit of a loose end since we melted all the saucepans down into Spitfires.