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===The Newmanry=== {{Main|Newmanry}} When the war ended, Newman was presented with a silver tankard inscribed 'To MHAN from the Newmanry, 1943β45'.<ref name="colossus.newman"/> ====Heath Robinson==== {{Main|Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine)}} Construction started in January 1943, and the first prototype was delivered in June 1943.<ref>[[Jack Copeland]] with [[Catherine Caughey]], [[Dorothy Du Boisson]], [[Eleanor Ireland]], Ken Myers, and Norman Thurlow, "Mr Newman's Section", p. 157 of pp. 158β175 in {{cite book |title=Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-19-957814-6 }}</ref> It was operated in Newman's new section, termed the "[[Newmanry]]", was housed initially in Hut 11 and initially staffed by himself, [[Donald Michie]], two engineers, and 16 [[Women's Royal Naval Service|Wrens]].<ref name="copeland64">Jack Copeland, "Machine against Machine", pp. 64β77 in B. Jack Copeland, ed., in {{cite book |title=Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-19-957814-6 }}</ref> The Wrens nicknamed the machine the "[[Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine)|Heath Robinson]]", after the [[W. Heath Robinson|cartoonist]] of the same name who drew humorous drawings of absurd mechanical devices.<ref name="copeland64"/> ====Colossus==== {{Main|Colossus computer}} The Robinson machines were limited in speed and reliability. [[Tommy Flowers]] of the [[Post Office Research Station]], [[Dollis Hill]] had experience of [[Vacuum tube|thermionic valves]] and built an electronic machine, the [[Colossus computer]] which was installed in the Newmanry. This was a great success and ten were in use by the end of the war.
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