Popular belief has it that White's detectors are named after the founder of the company.
Not true, the first White's detectors were PI machines which, as you probably know, are not very accurate at pinpointing so the boffins at the manufacturing laboratory came up with a very clever little device.
The machine was fitted with a small tank which the detectorist filled with paint and then pressurised using a bicycle pump.
Here's the clever bit, when a target was located the machine was "X'd" to find the centre and then when the strongest signal was received a little valve automatically opened and a squirt of paint marked the ground precisely over the target.
Field trials showed that the best and most visible colour to use was white and it wasn't very long before dots of white paint started to appear all over the countryside from the users of this fantastic machine.
The detector was so popular that it became known as "Whitemarks" and this soon became shortened to "White's" .
Production of this particular detector ceased in the late 70's and the makers of the machine the "American Pulse Receiving Induction Loop Finds Only Old Loot" company liked the name White's so much they have stuck to it to this very day.
So there ya go...a little bit of history.
Richy.
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