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Britain organised collaboration between the military, scientists, and industry supremely well – discussions between the respective participants were open and frank with the objective of finding not the perfect solution, but one which worked and could be applied effectively and quickly in as many applications as possible.

This willingness to discuss ideas and problems was well illustrated by the ‘Sunday Soviets’ who met on Sunday mornings at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) in Malvern. Originating with discussions between senior RAF officers and Robert Watson-Watt and Jimmy Rowe (the scientists who developed radar), they developed into regular meetings of an informal nature and were attended by senior officers from all three services. Here the operations of a whole command could be discussed, and junior personnel who had a useful contribution to make, whether technical or military, were invited to attend and encouraged to speak.

It has not been possible to ascertain why they were called Soviets, a word often associated with the Russian Communist regime.