By: adrian_gray - 4th October 2007 at 13:34
Consider me educated, chaps – I wouldn’t have recognised it anway (though I might have guessed it if it was right way up), but its being surrounded by turrets didn’t help.
Thanks for sorting that out, Mark – much appreciated!
Adrian
By: Cees Broere - 4th October 2007 at 13:14
By: Mark12 - 3rd October 2007 at 21:57
What does intrigue me is the object on the left hand side of the second picture- the one with the two vertical brackets-it looks very much like a Wellesley bomb carrier to me!!!
Radpoe Meteor
The full frame.
Mark
By: pagen01 - 3rd October 2007 at 21:35
Wonder if that was the same Leigh light that ended up on display at Hendon?
By: Radpoe Meteor - 3rd October 2007 at 20:31
Adrian Gray spotted something strange in an image posted on the Spitfire Lambeth thread.
Here is a view showing slightly more and also a more distant rear view.
Anybody any idea what it is/was?
Mark
Definitely appears to be a former Wellington “dustbin turret” converted for use as a Leigh Light-the searchlight itself can be seen through the perspex window-it was used in costal command Wellingtons to illuminate U-boats (that were on the surface) at night in order to press home an attack.
A nose mounted version of the same light was fitted into Douglas Bostons for the same purpose.
What does intrigue me is the object on the left hand side of the second picture- the one with the two vertical brackets-it looks very much like a Wellesley bomb carrier to me!!!
By: Creaking Door - 3rd October 2007 at 20:25
Yep, Leigh Light, built into modified ‘dustbin’ mid-under turret on a Wellington.
By: Creaking Door - 3rd October 2007 at 20:08
Wellington mid-under ‘dustbin’ turret (lying on side)?
Early Leigh-Light built from same?
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