Good evening gents,
So as the title said, I need to tap into the collective knowledge of keypublishing to ID a variety of parts we’ve been donated. Please note, they are not for sale/trade etc, we’re just looking to work out what type(s) they belong to, and in some cases, what they actually are! Looking at them, gotta be WW2 ear and British, by my knowledge from that era is lacking!
1 – A general view
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I’ll put up the second batch shortly.
By: TerryP - 23rd March 2017 at 19:04
Item 6 in post 1 is the Computor Unit of a Low Level Bombsight Mk III. More pictures:
By: Bruce - 22nd March 2017 at 10:23
Pic 2 is and astro compass – used in loads of stuff.
Pic 3 – Oil pressure gauge (mossie and others), Remote indicating compass (Bombers), RPM gauge (Mossie, Lanc, Chipmunk and points between). Rad temp gauge (Mossie etc)
Pic 4- L/R gauge as per Andy Young above. The other one is postwar.
Pic 5 – Triple brake pressure gauge – that one is a Vampire/Venom one, but they fit other things. Eng temp gauge (Sea Fury and others). Oxygen flow gauge (Lanc and similar)
Pic 6 – RPM gauge (Spitfire, Hurricane etc)
By: AndyY - 22nd March 2017 at 09:34
I don’t see a Beam Approach indicator there, but I do see a Left-Right meter for the DF receiver (part of the R1155).
Andy
By: Rocketeer - 21st March 2017 at 23:21
Nice stuff there! A box of later war/50s stuff, a nice Spit type RPM, undercarriage switch also suitable for typhoon. Beam app indicator, turret oxy gauge, std drift knee pad, ht course ias thingy standard fit to many aircraft incl spit, hurri, tyffie etc etc. Later type iffswitch box for signalling code of day using nav lights – part of identification, friend or foe.
By: peppermint_jam - 21st March 2017 at 21:23
Thanks Bruce.
Here’s the other batch of random parts…..
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By: Bruce - 21st March 2017 at 21:07
Okey dokey.
No 2 is a standard bomb selector panel. Lanc, Mossie and so on
No 4 is a Lancaster type undercarriage indicator
No 5 has a mag switch which will fit many things, including Spitfire and Chipmunk. It also has an undercarriage lamp switch, which could be used on Lancaster. Lastly, a standard Morse key, used in everything.
No 7 is a standard bomb distributor. Mossie, Lanc and so on.
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March 21, 2017 at 7:48 pm