By: John Aeroclub - 26th August 2017 at 11:57
With tongue in cheek, I suppose they owed him that as he had spent nearly four years in the trenches, including Gallipoli and Ypres. 🙂
I also have other artifacts which included including his RFC forage cap (which sadly I lost). The only things I didn’t receive were two Mills Grenades kept in a bottom drawer. Some time after his death I asked his widow “what happened to them”. The reply was “I dropped them down the Lavvie” So nestling somewhere deep in a ‘long drop’ loo in a Manchester suburb… And “I’m the only one who knows where they are” said he to the echo of fiendish laughter.
John
John
By: Creaking Door - 26th August 2017 at 10:31
He had never owned a vehicle…
…but didn’t let that little detail stop him stealing the spanners! 😀
By: John Aeroclub - 26th August 2017 at 09:39
They had orange paint on them for visibility as had all the tools in my Radio control aircraft field kit. So I can claim they have been used on aircraft. No doubt someone will come along with a comment that will put a spanner in the works. :stupid:
John
By: ZRX61 - 26th August 2017 at 00:04
That’s the exact same set I have, but without the paint 🙂
By: John Aeroclub - 25th August 2017 at 23:14
:highly_amused:
John
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th August 2017 at 17:43
They’re Terry’s spanners. Give ’em back!
By: John Aeroclub - 25th August 2017 at 17:03
Like these. They were the property of an elderly gentleman who gave them to me when I was a boy and I believe them to be Bristol Fighter Magneto spanners as he had served at Coventry in 1918 at the RFC/RAF Aircraft acceptance depot, He had never owned a vehicle.
John
By: ZRX61 - 24th August 2017 at 23:58
Yup, mag spanners. I have a swivel set that includes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a screwdriver & one feeler gauge. They live in a small tin tray in my toolbox that contains all my other feeler gauges. Ken Wells my metal work teacher had us all make a tin tray with soldered corners & wired edges. Think I was 11 at the time, so I’ve had it for 46 years 🙂
Didn’t know it at the time, but he wrote 3 books on metalwork for school kids. Wish I could find copies of them now.
And after giving it some thought, the last time I used them was on my ’30’s JAP speedway bike in 1985….
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th August 2017 at 21:40
As Bill T says, they are almost certainly motorbike spanners. Supplied as part of the original toolkit and probably for motorbikes supplied to the AM.
Anon.
By: old eagle - 24th August 2017 at 19:32
2,4, and 5 BA Stamped AM 1940
L.O.A.approx 3 inches – not as big as the pic !
DC
By: WV-903. - 24th August 2017 at 18:16
Hi Old Eagle,
They look like Magneto spanners to me, used on British Classic Motorcycles and the Older Light Aircraft Engines Mags. Kind offer indeed.
Bill T.
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