Are there any ordnance experts around? It came from a Whitley VII equipped with ASV and crashed in 1941.
I can’t place it on the Whitley – it’s brass, the flange is 8.5cm in diameter and the inside is threaded.
As it’s brass it might have come off the glycol tank or maybe one of the radiators but I don’t recognise it – maybe some here does?
The other posibility is it was part of a bomb or depth charge…. The ordnance was dealt with safely at the time and nothing remains today.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
By: Whitley_Project - 7th June 2010 at 21:30
Blimey Martin – that’s quick! Don’t suppose you have a drawing?
By: hindenburg - 7th June 2010 at 20:55
looks like the retaining ring for a mine fuse Elliot.
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June 7, 2010 at 8:41 pm