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1939 Austin Ambulance. RC 6895. July 2019

1939 Austin Ambulance. RC 6895

Seen at Bletchley Park Summer 1940s Vintage Weekend.

 

The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.

 

The key codebreakers were Alan Turing (Mathematician), Dilly Knox (British cryptographer), John Tiltman (British officer), Max Newman (Mathematician), Bill Tutte (Mathematician). In all there over 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, Government Code and Cypher School.

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Taken on July 7, 2019