AH8200 grip wanted.

Air Ministry, i sent you a PM.

Think it’s working again now Alan

John

formally of this parish

I’m still around but haven’t had much worth posting of late.

I also have a “spare” AH8400, attached to the upper end of a Vampire column.  This was originally sold on Ebay a while ago but the deal fell through in the end.

How might we proceed with this sort of thing, didn’t someone say private messaging was broken?

Thanks for the information, much obliged.

Hi bananasplits,

Graham Adlam of Spitfire spares has one on his site at the moment but, he’s asking about twice as much as they are worth however, the age old question is, anything is only worth as much as anyone is prepared to pay for it!   http://spitfirespares.co.uk/controls.html   (just scroll down till you find it).

One or two have appeared on e-bay but, because these were also fitted to late mark Spitfires, along with Vampire 3/5/9, Meteor 4, Venom 1 (pre bang seat), Sea Fury, Spiteful, Balliol plus a few others), everyone assumes it must be off a Spitfire and worth a lot more!

It has also been noted by the great ‘Air Ministry’ formally of this parish, that confusion arises between the AH 8400 and AH 8200 part numbers in the AP 1086 listings.  The ring mk 2 handle is actually AH 8400 and thus marked/stamped and the firing button is actually AH 8200 as explained in his very worthwhile tome, ‘An illustrated guide to British Aircraft Equipment 1939 – 1945, vol 4 – Dunlop Spade grips and gun firing gear’ a ‘must’ for any avid handle collector!

Martyn

GYD 

Hi

According to my list, i actually have AH8200 & AH8400 as Balliol (among others).

Is the part number AH8400 rather AH8200?