More airfield finds

A Vacuum tanker for effluent/slurry.

http://www.whale.co.uk/

Thanks Kiteflyer, that looks pretty similar. Most of them have too much corrosion to read the numbers but the NAA lettering was correct. Bomberboy, what’s a Whale tanker? curious!

Ian,

Your cast cylinder looks rather like this one, it’s a P51-D part – 106-48338 – although this was retrofitted to a ‘B’. It’s from the fuselage tank booster pump assembly.

Jeff

The bit of ‘pipe’ with the rounded end appears to be a Bauer coupling that are used in everyday applications on things such as whale tankers etc.

Bomberboy

Thanks Tankbarrel, there were some US radial types broken up there.

Some of the exhaust sections we dug in Norfolk recently had spherical joint sections like that. R2800 seemed a possibilty at the time.

A couple more Llandow fragments. Would anyone have an idea about the Ryan Aeronautical piece. It looks like a bit of exhaust manifold but from what? The fuel **** backplate looks British and the little hollow bakelite bit is perplexing. The two inspection hatches have AW stamps. Last bits possible mustang, the cylinder has NAA cast into it. Could be tempted by a trip out Merkle. P1299 spun in so there is unlikely to be much remaining.

Any pictures??

Also noted that I have just found the markings DM5 just above the set of numbers noted above .. Any help here would be really helpful, .

wondering , with BAC at Weston S Mare in the war years, and after,
also with there being a MU station there, was there any breaking up of aircraft at the lweston airfield site ???.. and was the site photographed in 1946 when the RAF photographed lots of Britain ???.. Ian when we going out searching,:) I have done a bit at Charmy Down, found a few odds a ends.. including 16 Practice Mills Bombs .. ..

the RAF Locking site will probably be built on in the next few years, so I am keen to get on and have a look before its all built on 😮

also I am keen to find info on Hampden P1299 Which crashed Near Locking Camp, 16 OTU .. 4 crew killed . 6th April 1942.

I have asked in the area but no one seems to know much about it.

any info or leads would be greatly recieved
😀

They do, but Wales is poorly covered at the moment, however Rhoose (now Cardiff airport) and Pengham Moors is covered late 1940s

Welsh ones are held by the Assembly government and are viewable (in stereo!) by appointment. Word on the forum was google maps now have post war photos but I’ve not looked.

I am wanting to do the same at my Local airfield 🙂 .. need more info though .. any one got any Airial pics or maps from 1940s 50s ??

Sounds good, must admit interested in the site for different reasons than you, but a good way of combining things. I have walked the t/w before now and it is a great experience – certainly worth missing sunday dinner at the inlaws for!

Hello Pagen, it was a spur of the moment Sunday afternoon jolly (with the promise of returning with a nice dinner) I spent about an hour and a half looking, after two hours getting permission. The farmer has ‘the World at War’ on video and the war was fully discussed from the rise of the Nazis to Nagasaki. I thought it would be dark before I got away! It was, inevitably, frozen pizza and glum face by the time I got home. Will call you re a visit tonight.

I can’t believe you didn’t give me a ring;)
It is strange where bits tend to survive.
As you know most of the scrapping took place along the taxiway that links St Athan to Llandow, there were two mass breaking areas, one to the SE of LW (centre bottom of first pic, loop area) and the other N of SA. The last one is now the site for a digger/excavator training area for the past 8 years and they regularly dig large areas down to about a meter, and yet not one fragment of aircraft has been found! I wonder if the safer bet is actually where the aircraft were stored on the dispersals etc.

I’m sure it is the tip of the iceburg!

I’m sure he’d be only to happy to let you clean up his field! I bet that’s the tip of the iceberg.

Thanks Elliott, yes, Llandow. The stamp could easily be a P, and there are some similar shaped fairings for the flap linkage under the wings on an Albermarle. The farmer said he gave that guy in Bridgend three feed sacks full of bits, as well as what he found for himself.

Hi Ian

Is this Llandow? I have some of those alumium parts – I think the prefix is SP and they also originate from the albemarle.

Regards