An image showing 'N25124; An electric motor connected to a system of wire runners, metal strip bends and pulleys in the corner of an office in the UGHQ, Fort Southwick, Portsmouth. The UGHQ was the Underground Headquarters for Operation Overlord and the complex was excavated about 100 feet below ground between Feb. and Dec. 1942. It contained well over 100 rooms and over 700 staff worked in the complex.'

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An experimental messenger system in the UGHQ under Fort Southwick, Portsmouth, Hampshire

An electric motor connected to a system of wire runners, metal strip bends and pulleys in the corner of an office in the UGHQ, Fort Southwick, Portsmouth. The UGHQ was the Underground Headquarters for Operation Overlord and the complex was excavated about 100 feet below ground between Feb. and Dec. 1942. It contained well over 100 rooms and over 700 staff worked in the complex. None of this wire and pulley system can be seen in photographs taken in the complex in 1944.

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Object details

ID:	N25124
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	12 July 1942
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 101 mm x 127 mm