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Aft er long and serious consideration, Warco have decided not to

attend the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition in October this

year. This diffi cult decision has been made based on costs and major

disruption in preparing the counters and machines for presentation

at the exhibition, setting up and attendance over the exhibition

days and re-stocking the stores and showroom aft er the event. This

combined eff ort, involving many staff in multiple departments, is at

least fi ve weeks out of an already stretched work schedule.

Warco has been attending the Midlands exhibition since its

inception in Birmingham some thirty years ago, through the

moves to the Royal Showground, Donnington and then to the

Warwickshire Event Centre.

Warco would like express their thanks and apologies to their

many regular visitors and loyal friends.

To compensate for not attending, we will have some very special

off ers to coincide with the week of the show. Warco will continue to

organise their Open Days throughout the year.

http://www.warco.co.uk

John Harper has been in touch to express his thanks to MEW and it’s readers for the many off ers of skilled help with producing spare parts

for the ‘Bombe’. He has been in touch with many readers whose experience ranges from working on the Bluebird Project and Thrust 2 to

restoring a Dakota and Lancaster. Another reader was a member of HM Forces, intelligence during the war and has off ered to assist in other

ways.

I do need to make one correction, however, in May 2018 the Bombe was moved across Bletchley Park, so it has passed from the care of the

Bletchley Park Trust to the National Museum of Computing, so it is now in the same home as Colossus

Exhibition Announcement from Warco

Bletchley Park Update