"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Iain had written
had a carbon hand mic in a very substatial bakelite case
and padding with a switch on the side. It had the British WD
mark and broad arrrow on the back plus RTC (Royal Tank Corps)
and 2DG (2nd Dragoon Guards) After a while, I exchanged it for a
78rpm record; "All Shook Up" which I still have. I wonder if that
spotty kid in short trousers still has my mic? I would like it back:-)

Carbon mics were used widely by the miliary through WW2.

Indeed. you probably did not get the significance of my mention
of the WD broad arrrow. The 2nd Dragoon Guards, raised as
a regiment of horse dragoons in the 1680s became a mechanised
regiment a few years before WW2 and were part of The Royal
Armoured Corps ("The Tanks")

So the mic I referred to may well have been used by
a tank commander in W.Europe or maybe N.Africa.
I wish I still had it.

Iain