Help Identifying items please

One of them is a bath towel, white, slightly distorted. Worth about five quid new but very little used. Don’t know about the othere two items.
Rgds Cking

Wow! That’s the best item in the collection! Obviously, it is the white towel that Ursula Andress wore in “The Blue Max” 😉

Thanks
You might like to look at this thread, pics of the yard & some details of the aircraft in it in ’58 & ’60
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1213114

Thanks for that. Oh how I wish I could have gone there.

Reply to Flat 12×2. No photos unfortunately but friends dad seems to remember Typhoons or Tempests, possibly Furies and Harvards/Texans. I have a joystick grip from a Har/Tex. that he gave me.

Thanks
You might like to look at this thread, pics of the yard & some details of the aircraft in it in ’58 & ’60
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1213114

Skylines? Sandhurst

Reply to Flat 12×2. No photos unfortunately but friends dad seems to remember Typhoons or Tempests, possibly Furies and Harvards/Texans. I have a joystick grip from a Har/Tex. that he gave me.

Yes Flat12X2 didnt know the name but thats the one. Will try to get more info but friends dad is 80 + & not that well. Wish I’d lived in the area at that time. Atb Tona.

Knowing that I have an interest in WWII era aircraft a friends father gave me some items he had collected. Post war he worked in a scrap yard nicknamed “Sandhurst Airport.” Apparently aircraft were flown into Blackbushe airport then trailered to the scrap yard to be broken up.

Tona
I would guess that that would have been Skylines (?) which was in Florence Rd. off Yorktown Rd. Collage Town near Sandhurst. The site is now the car park behind the present offices fronting Yorktown Rd. if you look at Sat. images on google maps.
When I visited it in the late ’70’s there were Harvard fusalages & Vampire/Venom wings in there.
Could you get any more info ? like how many aircraft they scrapped & what kinds ? & any pics. ?

No problem – just a word of caution.

No prob Cking, bit of humour always appreciated. Thanks for the warning TwinOtter23 but mine dont glow. Atb Tona.

If the escape compass has a luminescent face I suggest that you treat it with a bit of caution, because in radiation terms they can be a little ‘hot’.

Many thanks guys. Had an idea what the two round things were but the white fluffy thing was really puzzling me cheers Cking.

Sorry, couldn’t resist and yes, I know I’m going to hell!
The watch is lovely, thanks for showing it to us.

Rgds Cking

Many thanks guys. Had an idea what the two round things were but the white fluffy thing was really puzzling me cheers Cking.

Hi tona,

the other is a WW2 british ‘escape’ compass.

Hamilton AN5470 master navigation watches usually sell for between $350 and $500 on ebay depending on markings and condition.

They are a very nice and collectable watch, there is also a round metal box with a glass window for them (grey painted). Inside is a spring loaded cradle that the watch fits into.

cheers,

-John

Bit of detective work on google gives –

“Navigational Master Watch GCT-Hamilton Type 5470 – This was used by the US Army Air Corps for navigation in WW2”

Jon

One of them is a bath towel, white, slightly distorted. Worth about five quid new but very little used. Don’t know about the othere two items.

Rgds Cking