Telecommunications Research Establishment
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The Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) was established in Malvern, England in 1940 as the central research group for RAF applications of radar.
Development of radar had been initiated by Sir Henry Tizard's Aeronautical Research Committee in 1935 at Orfordness near Ipswich. The group moved to the nearby Bawdsey Research Station in 1936 and had a rather peripatetic existence before moving to Malvern College in May 1940. In November 1940, it became the TRE.
In addition, the organization worked with MI6 science advisor, Reginald Jones, in countering the Luftwaffe's navigational beam technology to hamper the enemy's ability to do pinpoint night bombing raids.
TRE was combined with the Army Radar Establishment in 1953 to become the Radar Research Establishment - and was renamed the Royal Radar Establishment in 1957. It became the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment when the Army Signals Research and Development Establishment (SRDE) moved to Malvern in about 1980. The whole was swallowed by the Defence Research Agency in 1991.
Leading & Notable staff
- Anthony Hewish
- Bernard Lovell
- Tom Kilburn
- J. A. Ratcliffe
- A.H. Reeves
- Martin Ryle
- F Graham Smith
- Sir Frederic Calland Williams
- B.V. Bowden
