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APPENDIX 2

Early radio control receiver  using two valves built in 1955  (school O level project).

The beginning of kits for radio control . . .

Around 1962, prototypes of 'pulse proportional radio control systems' became popular. If I am correct a chap called Charles Rail managed to connect both rudder and elevator together giving a kind of 'Dual-proportional' control of a model aircraft. The system was called 'Galloping Ghost' because of the continual mechanical noise the servo/actuator made. With careful adjustment this early proportional system worked very well compared with what was called 'Bang Bang' (Reed) R/C systems of the day.

So long before MICRON RADIO CONTROL was borne, a small 'cottage' business began producing kits of electronic and metal parts for flying friends and small clubs in the area. The kits of parts were eventually given the name of GALLATROL by the then editor of RCM+E magazine UK, David Boddington.  How to build a GALLATROL system was fully described in the September 1965 edition of RCM+E.

It was a good ten years later that the 'business idea' re-surfaced and the name MICRON was registered. 

The RCM+E article was a 16 page  7" X 5"  'trade size'  booklet inserted in the September1965 magazine. (bit like the magazine in a Sunday newspaper). but much smaller!

(a GALLATROL booklet page example is shown above).