Spinner is from the Jack Arnold collection, bought years ago as a Spitfire spinner, as you people may know Jack had a Spitfire along with many Hurricane recoveries. Spinner has DH makers stamp and serial, #s include P59184A3? amd P57879-1 and SD89. I am hopeful the part numbers will produce aircraft ID, sure looks like Spit , it is a 4 bladed spinner and has some de-icing capabilities? Could this be Heron or Dove? thanks in advance fellas.
By: Cees Broere - 29th December 2008 at 18:13
Wouldn’t that spinner look very much out of place on a Spit?
Cheers
Cees
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th December 2008 at 14:25
Spinner i/d
Chaps,
Both the 748 and the Viscount were Dart-powered and had Dowty propellers.
It was usual for the propeller manufacturers to make the spinners too as it was essentially part of the engine/prop installation not part of the airframe.
The Pembroke and Prince a/c, for example, had de-H spinners but was a Percival airframe because de-H made the props. You will see the same spinner across the range of aircraft with this engine (piston Provost too) as it was doing the same job.
de-H made loads of spinners being the biggest manufacturer of British (mainly licence-built Hamilton Standard) props both during and after WW2.
Dowty’s (undercarriages & gearboxes)) merged with Rotol (ROlls-Royce and BrisTOL propellers) and made a new range of props post-war for the emerging airliners and the gas turbine market.
This spinner looks 748-shaped but I suspect it’s from something else. By its size it is in the 1000+ h.p. class but there must have been hundreds of different applications for de-H spinners. The numbers are there but it’ll need an applications list to pin it down.
Late Spits had Rotol props but can someone check the Seafire spinner part numbers and confirm or eliminate that one for sure?
Anon.
By: Jon H - 28th December 2008 at 21:58
could be off of a HS748?
My initial thought was Viscount.
So probably anything Dart powered – 748, Viscount, Herald etc etc
Jon
By: Peter - 28th December 2008 at 21:36
Darrell, looks a bit like sea fire as well. Do you have any other pics of it?
By: Peter - 28th December 2008 at 21:10
could be off of a HS748?
By: bolyman - 28th December 2008 at 19:39
David, about 32 inches high and 23 across, just spoke with owner, he says possible Seafire or Fury? The units for de-icing kind of have me fooled, but we in Canada did have aircraft post war for cold weather testing so may have de-icers? Darrell
By: GrahamSimons - 28th December 2008 at 18:49
I know this may be stating the blindingly obvious, but do not think DH Aircraft, think DH Propellers – could be Ambassador…..
By: David Burke - 28th December 2008 at 17:58
Bolyman – Four blader rules out Doves! Could you give rough dimentions as it’s difficult to gauge size and shape from the picture.
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