How a Bridgnorth company helped win the Second World War
Only after the guns fell silent could Bridgnorth's role in winning one of the crucial battles of the Second World War be revealed.
It was the top secret boffins' war – a race to stay ahead in the field of hi-tech.
And at the end of it all the Bridgnorth workers who had played their part in giving Britain the lead in the field of radar were given an official pat on the back.
Sir Robert Renwick, from the Air Ministry and Ministry of Aircraft Production, wrote a letter of gratitude and appreciation "to you and all those employees of your company who have contributed to the production of the equipment and apparatus which has been of such vital importance to the successful operation of the Royal Air Force."
The company concerned was the Radio Gramophone Development Company, generally shortened to RGD, which had settled into the Pale Meadow Works in Bridgnorth in February 1941, and had done much important secret radar work.
