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Help please with i.d. of a few relics

Hi can anyone help with identifying a few relics that i puchased from an antiques fair, i managed to i.d. most but a little stuck on these..

The lever has an inspection stamp that reads in circled
M
H H
8 also theres a number B179013
would anyone know what aircraft this stamp may of been used for?

The 2 plates read
RENDAN MANUFACTURING Co (GB)L
1940
BRIT. PATENT 4880082
BRIT.APPLN35433/38
CTS 294/w9446(Con.1)
R.W.E.S.TYPE NO 833218

The second plate has the same numbers but ends R.W.E.S TYPE N0 A121520

Again many thanks for any help given.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]236838[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]236839[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]236840[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]236841[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]236842[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]236843[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]236844[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]236845[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]236846[/ATTACH]

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By: hawker1966 - 19th April 2015 at 22:05

I agree with Nick, the last item is a rocker cover. It is certainly very similar to one off a Cheetah. I have always found numbers on Cheetah rocker covers.

I do apologise Ericmonk as Alan clark states yes it is certainly a rocker cover for a siddeley Cheetah engine,( in the same box of relics was a Cheetah engine engine plate)

Also im now thinking the plate with Air Filler Brakes/ Air Filler Gun are from an Anson as exactly the same disign as a couple of other Anson plates i have.

Thanks again..

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By: Alan Clark - 19th April 2015 at 21:03

I agree with Nick, the last item is a rocker cover. It is certainly very similar to one off a Cheetah. I have always found numbers on Cheetah rocker covers.

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By: hawker1966 - 19th April 2015 at 18:57

AHA! There it is. British Patent 480082 (1937) refers to Dannert wire. An oil-tempered barbed wire developed during WW1. Much harder to cut than
ordinary barbed wire. Ironically, it was German national Horst Dannert who developed this wire into self-supporting concertinas. An individual Dannert wire concertina was compressable as a one-man-carried-coil and capable of stretching to 50 feet using only three fixations.

Where spotted ericmonk, no wonder i couldnt find it in the Aviation field..

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By: ericmunk - 19th April 2015 at 18:02

AHA! There it is. British Patent 480082 (1937) refers to Dannert wire. An oil-tempered barbed wire developed during WW1. Much harder to cut than
ordinary barbed wire. Ironically, it was German national Horst Dannert who developed this wire into self-supporting concertinas. An individual Dannert wire concertina was compressable as a one-man-carried-coil and capable of stretching to 50 feet using only three fixations.

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By: hawker1966 - 19th April 2015 at 17:54

Hi thankyou for your replys. The photos 3 and 4 did come with a Merlin exhaust relic, so could well be Hurricane.

Ref the last 2 photos the photos are a little mis leading as the size of the relic is around 5″ x 2″

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By: ericmunk - 19th April 2015 at 17:52

The Rendan tag does not seem to be aviation related per se. See http://pillboxesinsuffolk.blogspot.nl/2010_05_01_archive.html (24 May 2010) and http://www.metaldetectingforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=33495 describing similar finds. The company was amongst other things known for making barbed wire and held several patents for this.

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By: N.Wotherspoon - 19th April 2015 at 16:11

Possible ID

Last two Cheetah rocker cover?

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By: Arabella-Cox - 19th April 2015 at 16:06

3 & 4 are Hurricane structure, I’d say.

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