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What's ZIS?
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Posted on: 2012/4/16 14:19
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Re: What's ZIS?
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Outdoor thermometer, fuel rod, tomahawk, ...? I'm completely baffled and open to suggestions. The background in this contemporary photo is showing a ZIS factory building.

Posted on: 2012/4/17 12:51
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I was thinking some kind of antenna. The black ends on the rod might be an insulator and mount but that's just a guess.

Posted on: 2012/4/17 13:01
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Some early form of Soviet GPS antenna for tracking occupants of automobiles. Required. Sputnik!

Just like today, except GM calls it OnStar and made it desirable enough to have loyal subjects pay for it.

Posted on: 2012/4/17 13:08
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... but that's just a guess.


Howard, thanks for your help and attention. A kind of test equipment would be another possibility.
To follow your idea of some kind of antenna isn't a wrong track. At least some few of short-distance ambulances had been furnished for radio communication, clearly recognizable by long whip antennas.

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Posted on: 2012/4/17 14:33
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Some early form of Soviet GPS antenna for tracking occupants of automobiles...

Joey, thanks for the brainwave. I daresay that the KGB preferred conventional methods.

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Since it appears to be deliberately placed in plain view of windshield and appears to have a wire routed around windshield/top post it is something that has to be read from interior of car and most likelymonitored by some passenger navigator rather than read by the driver. Assuming the car is left hand drive and not rite hand drive.

Posted on: 2012/4/17 14:56
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Maybe somekind of temperature monitor/control for windshield fog/frosting/condensation. Difference between inside windshield temp v outside temperature to control defroster. Just a long shot idea.

Posted on: 2012/4/17 15:09
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...to be read from interior of car and most likelymonitored by some passenger navigator rather than read by the driver...

...Maybe somekind of temperature monitor/control for windshield fog/frosting/condensation. Difference between inside windshield temp v outside temperature to control defroster. Just a long shot idea.

Keith, darned good idea, well founded and even combinable with Howards insulation & mount theory.

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Posted on: 2012/4/17 15:30
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Odd that the top of the column seeems to at least touch the underside of the protruding roof section (similar to a small visor) over the windshield OR maybe intersects THRU the lower roof????

Posted on: 2012/4/17 19:45
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