Spade grip at eBay

Rocketeer is the Spade Grip guru!

How about a pic of your collection….did you see Guy Blacks lot on ‘warplane’ on C5…..coooooo!

YY

Will try to find one….not as big a collection as 682al though!!! 😀

What’s wrong with the euro Cees, don’t you listen to mr Zalm who told us so many times that the euro has kept the prices low, and nothing has been getting more expensive due to the new money? BW Roger

Yes, I listen to him but he only laughs on television and nobody takes him seriously 😀

Cees

What’s wrong with the euro Cees, don’t you listen to mr Zalm who told us so many times that the euro has kept the prices low, and nothing has been getting more expensive due to the new money? BW Roger

A few years ago I was offered a similar spade grip for just 50 guilders (before the ^*^*^euro entered the scene) which was about 10 GBP. I turned it down at the time (but thas was before I started collecting myself). I still regret that 😮

Cheers

Cees

Rocketeer is the Spade Grip guru!

How about a pic of your collection….did you see Guy Blacks lot on ‘warplane’ on C5…..coooooo!

YY

Thanks again chaps.

For TD,

I am currently in Ottawa on an exchange tour with the CF from the British Army. I would love to find a brake lever for it, so would appreciate any info that you can give me (an original would be even better!). Your pics show a grip that is exactly like the one I have.

Cheers again

Jon

It does have two small holes drilled in the grip. They are facing the pilot, dead top centre and 3/4 of an inch apart.

They may be for a bracket to hold a firing switch (for practice bombs) or a press-to-transmit switch.

Here it is Jon!

Jon, I think I may know what that’s for deep inmy mind!
PM me your email address and I will send you some pix of my Canadian spadey. I tried to make it small enuff to go on the site but cannot due to them being a meg each. I can get you a good repro lever if you wish. Where in Canada are you
regards
TD

Hi again,

Unfortunately no brake lever (damn shame, I will have to get one for it, if I for it). It does have two small holes drilled in the grip. They are facing the pilot, dead top centre and 3/4 of an inch apart. Never seen that before. Almost as if something had been afixed and taken off.

Rgds

Jon

Looking at buying a spade grip at the moment and saw one today over here in Canada that does not differ too much from the one refered to in this thread. The one I have seen purports to be from a Canadian Hurricane and is marked AH2040. Other than the fact that the one I saw appears to be little more ’rounded’, has the ‘bump’ (missing the technical term here) on both sides of the grip and the remains of a 2 x metal pipes (gun electrics?) coming out of it, they look very much the same. How do I tell the difference fellahs?

Cheers

Jon

Jon, sounds like a Canadian Hurricane to me, AH2040 is correct, does it have the brake lever and catch?

Looking at buying a spade grip at the moment and saw one today over here in Canada that does not differ too much from the one refered to in this thread. The one I have seen purports to be from a Canadian Hurricane and is marked AH2040. Other than the fact that the one I saw appears to be little more ’rounded’, has the ‘bump’ (missing the technical term here) on both sides of the grip and the remains of a 2 x metal pipes (gun electrics?) coming out of it, they look very much the same. How do I tell the difference fellahs?

Cheers

Jon

TT, it certainly is…..looks like a post war modded AH2040 (had the brake cable guide shaved off and the gun button converted to electric). Canada built grip of course!!

Yep looks Harvard to me….

TT