Photo Puzzle 1: This is not used for physics; it is a "Remy" rake known as the "Sun". Attached to a tractor, its task is to rake up the cuttings from those areas of the site given over to grassland. Robust and easy to handle, it enables the work to be carried out in difficult, even acrobatic, positions (such as on "Mount Citron" and the mounds of the Proton Synchrotron ring).
Photo Puzzle 2: No connection with the [other] photo, this many-legged octopus, tended by Mario Grossi, is actually a pile of three "pancakes" destined for a DC electromagnet under construction in NPA Division. The magnet will produce a field of 100,000 gauss and will be used for testing the properties of superconducting samples. Each pancake is made of a rectangular-section hollow conductor, 8.5 mm × 5.5 mm, spirally wound and cast in epoxy resin; it is so arranged that there are 11 parallel water circuits for cooling, but one continuous electrical circuit as in a simple coil. The complete magnet contains eleven pancakes mounted in an iron yoke.
• Taken from CERN Courier December 1963 pp156–157, with captions on p158.