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BID/60 (Singlet)
by Matt Russell

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In 2005, a British rotor machine named Singlet (BID/60) S/N 13 was put on display at Bletchley Park in the Enigma and Friends exhibit assembled by David White and John Alexander. (Photo by Matt Russell)

The caption at Bletchley Park reads: "Singlet was used mainly by the British intelligence services from around to the 1949/50 to the early 1980's. This is a 'Cold War' machine using wired rotors to achieve secure messages. We are very grateful to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and GCHQ for this opportunity to show `Singlet' here at BP."

Singlet has windows and stepping levers for ten rotors. The rotor tube appears to be a detachable section, labelled BID/60/3, while the base unit is labelled BID/60/1. There is a hint of a connection to the KL-7 in this naming of the major components .

The BID 60 major component are named as follows with their similarity to the KL7 in parenthesis.

Base unit AFSAM 7/1 (KLB),
Rotor stepping unit AFSAM 7/2 (KLA)
Rotor basket AFSAM 7/3 (KLK).

The rotor tube, stepping levers and the keyboard are also all somewhat suggestive of some sort of link or common ancestry with the KL-7. MIke Simpson confirms that the rotors were the same and BID60 could encipher/decipher Adonis traffic by simply using 8 instead of 10 rotors, thus making the machine suitable for use between it's major UK users and also with NATO members.