The Bombe Huts

The Bombe Unit - BL19 SWL 10 CWT (508kg)

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Beware the low roof.

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A Bombe Machine was quite a bulky beast and could only just fit through the comparatively narrow doorway.

The Bombes were about 6 feet high by 6 feet wide, rather like a large wardrobe...

...save for the masses of spindles, shafts, wheels, brushes and commutators within them.

With all those whirring spindles,
the Bombes were
very noisy and generated a lot of heat.

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The Bombe Unit (Hut 11A) was a heavily reinforced structure.

And a roof supported by RSJ's (Rolled Steel Joists).

It was constructed of strong brick & concrete walls.

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This electromechanical counting machine was designed to eliminate variables at high speed. Its action was described as ‘machines that go on ticking until they reach a combination that will cause them to produce an output; hence bombe’.