Can anybody identify this wooden propeller that has just sold on eBay?
The only parts that I recognise are the ‘Morris Motors Limited’ parts…..and they’re not from an aircraft! :rolleyes:
By: bloodnok - 20th April 2009 at 21:43
Looks like it was a post 1925 Oxford as it seems to have had front wheel brakes.
By: Creaking Door - 20th April 2009 at 00:44
The Morris Motors bit is a brilliant red herring. It looks as if – lord alone knows why – the propeller has at some point been mounted on a vintage Morris front wheel hub!
Exactly! In fact I was so distracted by this ‘red herring’ that I completely missed that the seller had (as it turns out) correctly identified the engine type – ABC Hornet (thanks G-ASEA)…..air-cooled flat four…..ahead of its time!
The Morris hub was presumably intended to allow the propeller to rotate…..suggestions on a postcard? :confused:
By: John Aeroclub - 19th April 2009 at 19:03
Agree with Low ‘n’ slow The Morris Cowley/ Oxford used a three stud hub plate on it’s Sankey artillery wheels.
John
By: low'n'slow - 19th April 2009 at 17:52
The maker’s badge on the propeller is for Lang Airscrew, otherwise known as The Airscrew Company, which at the time was based at Brooklands.
Dashwood Lang then moved the company to Peterborough in the mid-1930s, then when the anticipated business from Aeronca failed to materialise, reformed it in Chesham as Hordern Richmond.
The stampings on the propeller boss are identical to those used later by Hordern Richmond on props for Tiger Moths and the like.
The Morris Motors bit is a brilliant red herring. It looks as if – lord alone knows why – the propeller has at some point been mounted on a vintage Morris front wheel hub!
By: G-ASEA - 19th April 2009 at 17:35
The ABC Hornet flat four engine was Fitted to the Civilian Coupe 1, Robison Redwing, Southen Martlet, and intened for the Westland Wigeon 111.
Dave
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April 19, 2009 at 5:05 pm