On one of the benches was a drill that spun a piece of wood (about 2" x 3/4" x 18") along its axis. As the wood turned they wrapped a length of uninsulated wire round it. After this they would cut through the wire along the length of the wood on opposite sides to produce hundreds of U-shaped pieces of wire. These were then used to wrap around the multiple pins in the radar boards to link them together.
This sounds right, only we had a locally manufactured metal assembly which you hand-wound, making about 50 links at a time. You had the two-piece block in a vice and hit the centre section with a hammer and it sheared the wire into links. You spent a couple of hours each week making a crate of links. Boring! The first thing you learned on Blue Orchid Doppler was there was one link that, if broken while the Transmitter was on, blew hundreds of transistors. Given they were all encapsulated, that effectively scrapped the LRU as nobody fancied digging them out with a PACE unit.