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In the early 1970's Clark Masts published their first catalogue in 16 years.
Alec Clark, the company's founder had been designing and building portable
air-operated telescopic masts since 1957. During this time Alec Clark's unique
lightweight portable masts had found their way into applications throughout the
world with government Departments Of Defence, Police Departments, Fire
Departments and Emergency Services. Commercial and industrial applications
included for Radio Field Strength Surveying, TV Field Strength Surveying and
portable radio communications. Alec Clark's company, Clark Masts Limited, performed practically ever manufacturing operation itself in-house. Fabrication, casting, precision machining, canvas sewing, plastic and rubber mouldings, anodising and plating, painting, printing, publishing and even the manufacture of packing cases were all in-house operations. Australian users first saw these unique portable masts in the early 1960's courtesy of a antenna manufacturing company called Belling-Lee and the foresight of a gentleman working for them at the time, Frank Welsh. Frank went on, with others, to form his own company, Scalar Industries, in the late 1960's and brought the Clark Masts agency with him. Following Frank Welsh's retirement from Scalar in the mid 1980's GFS Electronics took on the Australian distributorship and continue to market Clark Masts in the Australia Asia-Pacific region today. Illustrated on this web page, for historical purposes, are Clark Masts Miscellaneous Equipment pages from their late 1960's - early 1970's catalogue. |
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In the late 1960's and early 1970's Clark Masts manufactured a number of accessories for their pneumatic telescopic masts. Included were such items as a set of two Flood Lights and Mast Weather Covers to keep the rain from entering a mast when it was not in use. The flood lights of yesterday have today evolved into Clark's very large Teklite emergency/portable lighting range. A Carrying Bag and a steel Equipment Box was available store mast items such as guy assemblies, guy pickets and picket hammer etc. |
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