Drawings for Halfax Throttle Box?

I have a set of origional ones from a dug halifax in peat running bristol herc engines, would guess that they are the same. They are almost perfect apart from a twist or 2 which could be used again with a bit of tinkering.

I will endevour to dig them out of the shed and post a few pics of the 4 engine throttle unit.

Gareth

Gareth,

Dug out the throttle box from your shed yet?:)
We want piccies:diablo:
Chees

Cees

Any chance of your phone number Gareth. I’ll give you a ring.

Cheers

Hi Gareth

There are a few more in the pipeline – don’t worry 😉

No movement on the one Phillipa put me onto – difficulty finding the landowner.

I have a throttlebox! Next big bit is the control column, although we have parts of this I want an intact one.

Cheers

I know of two sites excluding the one in the peat we put you onto, each site having a pair of merlins buried. The one site has a local rumour to have a missing rear gunner which is incorrect, the tail broke away with the plane crashing into very soft clay with the tail unit falling into a pond and believed still onsite.

This may be worth chasing as there could be a turret buried if you are interested?,this site was stumbled accross years ago while chasing a hurricane with a local farm worker telling us the story while working in the next field.

Hi Gareth

There are a few more in the pipeline – don’t worry 😉

No movement on the one Phillipa put me onto – difficulty finding the landowner.

I have a throttlebox! Next big bit is the control column, although we have parts of this I want an intact one.

Cheers

Well, it was meant to be tongue in cheek but there is truth to it.

That’s the main reason I have been so selective on getting items made up for the Whitley. There are still components out there. Only 2 days ago I got an email from a kind person offering me a flap section and hydraulic component from Whitley BD232 that were picked up off the hillside in the 1970s.

Lord only knows the volume of souvenired parts that were subsequently binned.

We will continue to watch and wait – restoring original components and selectively and conservatively having new ones made.

Fuselage frames are a different matter :p

Cheers

why dont you find a good buried whitley to dig, there are a few i know off which would reveil loads of parts including merlins. you find a good buried one any you may even get an origional throttle box!!!:D

Will look in the shed over the weekend for you boys, somewhere in there is also the engineers panel to prime the engines complete with fuel tank selector on, also a complete dingy with wooden bellow foot pump still working!!

I will post a few pics

Ooh, new game….

can I be Frank? :p

TT

Cees you forgot? shame on you..:o You were hoping to acquire one or two of them a little while back but that cam up nothing. Will see what costs will be involved out of curiosity. Would look good with our hali panel on display.

Hi Peter,
Not you, the other Pete. Can I call you Larry then?

Cheers

Cees

throttle box Cees

Cees you forgot? shame on you..:o You were hoping to acquire one or two of them a little while back but that cam up nothing. Will see what costs will be involved out of curiosity. Would look good with our hali panel on display.

Well, it was meant to be tongue in cheek but there is truth to it.

That’s the main reason I have been so selective on getting items made up for the Whitley. There are still components out there. Only 2 days ago I got an email from a kind person offering me a flap section and hydraulic component from Whitley BD232 that were picked up off the hillside in the 1970s.

Lord only knows the volume of souvenired parts that were subsequently binned.

We will continue to watch and wait – restoring original components and selectively and conservatively having new ones made.

Fuselage frames are a different matter :p

Cheers

Hi Elliiott,

Yes, I know. Of course there are a lot of parts still out there. But as you say fuselage frames will have to be made I’m afraid. Or a Whitley fuselage should be lurking somewhere as a shed.

Fighter Ace just mentioned that he has a recovered throttle box in his shed. If Peter mentioned earlier that he was looking for a throttle box as well we could have set up something to all our benefit and could have shared costs:D

I am very interested in those recovered throttle box photo’s.

Cheers

Cees

Well, it was meant to be tongue in cheek but there is truth to it.

That’s the main reason I have been so selective on getting items made up for the Whitley. There are still components out there. Only 2 days ago I got an email from a kind person offering me a flap section and hydraulic component from Whitley BD232 that were picked up off the hillside in the 1970s.

Lord only knows the volume of souvenired parts that were subsequently binned.

We will continue to watch and wait – restoring original components and selectively and conservatively having new ones made.

Fuselage frames are a different matter :p

Cheers

I have a set of origional ones from a dug halifax in peat running bristol herc engines, would guess that they are the same. They are almost perfect apart from a twist or 2 which could be used again with a bit of tinkering.

I will endevour to dig them out of the shed and post a few pics of the 4 engine throttle unit.

Gareth

Gareth,

Now you tell us!?:p

Yes, any pics will be nice to see. The throttle boxes differ between Merlin and Hercules versions. I have some drawings which are very detailed but will have to receive them back first from the chap who made my throttle box. Hrumph,
after many years of searching a batch of throttle boxes will be made, Elliott was right.

Cheers

Cees

I have a set of origional ones from a dug halifax in peat running bristol herc engines, would guess that they are the same. They are almost perfect apart from a twist or 2 which could be used again with a bit of tinkering.

I will endevour to dig them out of the shed and post a few pics of the 4 engine throttle unit.

Gareth