Blue Streak or Thor?

[Windy Militant]

I don't know if this is the right place for this question but here goes.

I work at a supposedly well known research lab. We have a cabin that we use to store junk which lab mythology holds was a Blue Streak control cabin. I'm sceptical of that as Blue Streak was never intended to be a mobile system. However I've seen pictures of Thor launchers which seem to have very similar cabins. I believe that the cabin was used for high altitude balloon tests before it came to it's current resting place.

On the front of the cabin near the entrance hatch is a data plate which states that it's a

Douglas Aircraft Co Inc Santa monica Calif USA.
Missile Launching Countdown Group Trailer Mounted
A/M24 A-1A.
part No 5681711.505
serial No 000076
date 02.2.62
Contract No AF04.647.114
WT 14240

Any ex RAF or USAF steely eyed rocketeers ever spend time in one of these?

[Iron City]

Nopt a steely eyed rocketeer but a quick search of the Redstone Arsenal, Army MAterial Command and USAFM holdings do not show a M24 associated with the Thor (it is however the 20mm cannon system son a B-36). Maybe it is Blue Streak. One way to find out is the National Stock Number that looks like this 1234-12-1234 and may have some letters or numbers leading or trailing. That is like a catalog number for everything military and that ties names and inventory managers and systems and stuff.

[ORAC]

The Thor production line was in Santa Monica, the dates tie in with the production dates of the UK systems.

[Windy Militant]

Thanks Guy's I've put all of numbers from the data plate onto my original post. I didn't bother originally as I didn't think I'd get much response. I'll try a search on the national stock number see what pops up!:ok:

[Iron City]

With all the information you have shouldn't be too hard....not.

I've used a number of Part Number /NSN crossreferences and found zero. The contract number doesn't match anything. Now down to contacting the archive/history offices at a couple Air Force places.

It appears that it is most likely Thor. There were 6 or 8 squadrons based in the UK from 1958 to 1963 or so, so a certain amount of material left behind is reasonable. The history types seem more into squadron/unit histories and aircraft/missiles. I guess nobody looks at the tow tractors/test equipment/yellow gear/etc...just the sexy flyingstuff.

[Gainesy]

Wasn't Blue Streak entirely British anyway?