CHANCE IN A LIFETIME TO OWN ONE OF THE BEST PIECES OF MILATRIA AROUND. THIS IS A GENUINE REAR GUNNERS TURRET WHICH WAS REMOVED FROM A SHORT STIRLING BOMBER BASED AT GAYDON AERODROME BY MY GRANDAD AFTER THE WAR, IT WAS USED AS A GREENHOUSE BY MY NAN FOR HER CACTUS’ WHICH FUNNILY ENUF IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS STILL USED FOR NOW 🙂 OBVIOUSLY AS YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE NO INTERNALS AS THE GUNS ETC WERE TAKEN OUT BUT AS A CUPPOLA IT IS COMPLETE, THE PERSPEX DOME AND THE REAR OPENING DOORS ARE ALL THERE AND WERE DISMANTLED BY ME. OVERALL FOR SOMETHING OF ITS AGE IT IS IN GOOD CONDITION, THERE IS ONE PIECE BROKEN OUT OF THE PERSPEX AS SHOWN BUT I HAVE THIS PIECE STILL SO CAN BE PUT BACK IN, APART FROM THAT IT HAS CRACKLING AND SOME CRACKS TO THE PERSPEX, PAINT IS WORN ETC BUT BEING AN ALUMINIUM FRAME THERE IS NO ROT, THE DOORS OPEN FINE ETC. IT HAS THE ORIGINAL ID TAGS INSIDE AS SHOWN AND I HAVE SOME PAPERWORK HERE TO VERIFY THAT IT WAS FITTED TO A STERLING AS SENT ME BY GUY AT THE AIR MUSEUM. ANYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW PLEASE JUST ASK….NO TEST PILOTS PLEASE….(GROAN) NO POSTAGE….(NOT EVEN AIRMAIL….DOUBLE GROAN) COLLECTION IDEALLY BUT DELIVERY COULD BE MADE AT COST BUT WOULD HAVE TO BE ARRANGED PRIOR TO AUCTION ENDING.
SENSIBLY RESERVED CONSIDERING WHAT THIS HISTORICALLY REPRESENTS….BET YOU WONT FIND ANOTHER SO DONT MISS IT!!
Regards
Mark Pilkington
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August 15, 2009 at 1:02 pm