Just an update, a chap helping me with my research spoke to the ex game keeper of an estate where the plane came down and he said that a Stirling wheel was in a farm building for 30 years after the war! It was then taken to Flixton Aviation museum. Now they only have a complete wheel of a Lanc, but said in the late 70s they had to ‘get rid’ of alot of tyres for Health and Safety reasons.

Shame looks like the tyre found of my grandads Stirling quite litterally went up in smoke!

Ian