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Remembering ISTEL
The first Austin Morris microwave radio equipment to be replaced was the
radio link between Longbridge and Cowley, replaced in 1980. The second
phase of replacement, is that of the radio equipment linking Cowley to London
and Cowley to Swindon.
The project was approved and completed by late 1982. The third and final
phase, the radio equipment used to link Longbridge to Castle Bromwich. was
completed by early 1984. This final replacement marked the end of the
original Austin Morris radio links.
This was sad occasion in some respects as this old radio equipment was a
memorial to some very forward thinking people who, in retrospect, made a
very sound investment for BL back in the late 1960s.
Without these original radio links we mav not have had the microwave
network and we would not have benefited from the advantage it gave us in
quickly implementing new technologies. However, we had a very reliable
network, comprised entirely of modern radio equipment, which provided
service up to the 1990s.
2024 - CDC site is up for sale. The end of a era and potentially the loss of a
familiar Redditch Landmark.
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