Hello folks,
I am after some research assistance to try and identify this 9 3/4 Gallon Petrol Tank.
It seems to be a tin metal? and features heavy riveting, it is flat bottomed but a rounded top similar to the top shape of a fuselage such as a Tiger Moth etc.
One end is flat but the other end has a scalloped shape, similar to what might be expected to sit behind an engine?
It has a carry handle which I believe has been fitted “after market” to make it into a carrying can.
I consider it is most likely to be off an aircraft.
It is placarded “PETROL capacity 9 3/4 Galls”and appears to have inspection tabs soldered onto it “98” and “GLCD”
It has a manufacturing placard marked as “R.A.F. Dg No A6591”
Given the style of construction, I consider its a product of the Royal Aircraft Factory? rather than the Royal Air Force?
Hence I consider its most likely to be off a british WW1 Military design?
So can anyone confirm or refute its parentage, and narrow down to the specific type?
Regards
Mark Pilkington
By: aircraftclocks - 20th March 2016 at 02:00
It’s reference AVIA 14/17/1/103 and is shown as, This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded.
By: mark_pilkington - 19th March 2016 at 21:36
Mark
It’s not A6591 as this is a drawing for the FE8 Tailplane, Clips, collar, wiring plate.
I read the drawing number as A6594, being a drawing about the arrangement of the rear petrol tank for the BE2D & 2E.
I would agree the last digit is a 4 not a 1 as originally quoted above, and the matching of the RAF drawing number to a BE2D/E fuel tank installation seems to confirm my suspicions of this objects provenance.
The original copy of the drawing is available from the PRO in the UK.
Are the original drawings accessible via scanned copies from the PRO?
-could you please provide contact details for the PRO and the series or accession reference that these drawings would be held under there?
Thanks for your prompt and informative assistance
Regards
Mark Pilkington
By: aircraftclocks - 19th March 2016 at 15:14
Drawing A6594
Mark
It’s not A6591 as this is a drawing for the FE8 Tailplane, Clips, collar, wiring plate.
I read the drawing number as A6594, being a drawing about the arrangement of the rear petrol tank for the BE2D & 2E.
The original copy of the drawing is available from the PRO in the UK.
By: mark_pilkington - 19th March 2016 at 13:11
Mark,those rivets look like pop or cherry type on my computer, is that right or is it my computer not showing clearly?
They “look” like pop or cherry type, but they are solids with a very narrow “raised tit” (term sourced from Standard Aircraft Handbook – Leavell & Bungay), then a very wide flat/flared head, the “wearing off” of the paint from the raised centre “tit” gives the optical illusion of a two part rivet head.
Regards
Mark Pilkington
By: Sopwith - 19th March 2016 at 11:05
Mark,those rivets look like pop or cherry type on my computer, is that right or is it my computer not showing clearly?
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