(A) & (B): Camp Minefield Situation Map as at 18 Nov 83. Maps: Fox Bay, Darwin and Goose Green, Port Howard. Base Map part series GSGS 5457. Printed by Taciprint RE HQ BFFI 22/11/2000 MISC 83044.
Scale: Scales differ. Maps coloured. Taciprint (Tactical Information Printing System) was a mobile printing press developed and used by the UK Armed Forces, in order to rapidly bring together and print cartographic information to inform field operations. The TaciPrint consisted of a transportable container mounted on a flatbed lorry, which towed its own 30k VA generator. The container housed a single colour Rotaprint A2 Offset Litho printing press, a contact exposure frame for Film/Proof/Printing Plate production, and a cartographic drawing table for overlay production. Operating a TaciPrint typically involved a crew of four people: two printers, a draughtsman, and a photographic technician.
Object Details
ID: | G214:14/1B |
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Collection: | Charts and maps |
Type: | Chart |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Royal Engineers; Taciprint |
Places: | Ascension Island |
Date made: | November 1983 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 47 cm x 65 cm |