Beschreibung:

A Whaddon Mk VII 'Paraset' Clandestine Spy Radio Set, English, circa 1942,serial no. 2157, the set with mains power supply unit (serial no. 10790), headphones, aerial wire, spare crystals and valves, concealed in original lined board suitcase,
case 16in x 4in x 10in (40.5cm x 10cm x 25.5cm) FootnotesProvenance:
The John Elgar-Whinney collection of clandestine radios and cipher machines.
The Whaddon Mk VII is a valve-based, lightweight, short-wave, CW-only clandestine transceiver or spy radio set, for the 40 and 80 metre radio bands, introduced in late-1942 by Section VIII of the the British Secret Intelligence Service SIS (MI6), at Whaddon Hall and Little Horwood. It was used throughout WWII by SIS (MI6) agents and intelligence gathering resistance organisations, and was dropped by parachute over German-occupied European countries, in particular in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Norway.
For further information see: www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/mk7/index.htm
Literature:
cf. Wireless for the Warrior, Wimborne Publishing Ltd, 2004.