Aerojumbles – 2015

Earlier today I managed to get a small advertising spend signed-off by the NAM trustees for its next Indoor Aeroboot / Aerojumble on 17th October, 2015.

Bookings are still coming through so I would encourage anyone interested in selling at this event to book early to be sure of a space.

Less than a fortnight until the Classic Air Force ‘jumble and they still haven’t replied to my email about how one get’s involved in the event. I think I’ll give this one a miss after all.

Details about the Autumn Indoor Aeroboot / Aerojumble at Newark on Saturday 17th October 2015, have now been added to the NAM website – details in here!

I was looking at this weekend’s Air Pageant at Coventry when I spotted this event:-

http://www.classicairforce.com/event-list

It doesn’t seem to have had much promotion and may be a wash out because of it but I expect I’ll be there anyway.

Lately the CLassic Air Force events are starting to get better. Its slow beginnings (again..) but the Air Pageant should see if the numbers are going to be a regular thing or if the opening day event back in May was just luck. We’ll have some surplus Shackleton kit up for grabs at the AeroJumble event before we try our luck again with evilBay.

Regards,

Rich

Ooh, you may have some competion on your hands, TwinOtter23!

Personally speaking I don’t view any such events as competition, rather as complementary! 🙂

Role on 17th October 2015 for NAM’s next indoor sale; I hope that existing sellers have completed their forms; we already have new sellers requesting booking forms!! :applause:

Another date for the diary!

I was looking at this weekend’s Air Pageant at Coventry when I spotted this event:-

http://www.classicairforce.com/event-list

AeroJumble: 30 August 2015

Another chance to discover hidden treasure

Buy, sell, swap and discuss all that priceless junk that fascinates all of us. If you need the space more than the clutter, or you need more – lots more – clutter, and dammit, you’ll find the space, this is the place to be. With low prices for sellers and free admission for buyers, we’re aiming to make Classic Air Force Aerojumbles a regular feature and a fascinating way to turn your passion into cash or your cash into something to fabulous to play with and treasure for years.

It doesn’t seem to have had much promotion and may be a wash out because of it but I expect I’ll be there anyway.

It’s an interesting location and with the right push could become an important event.

Ooh, you may have some competion on your hands, TwinOtter23!

What was that, “free coffee and a bacon sandwich for stall holders”?

Good day out at Popham aero / auto jumble today, I think the weather which was good can certainly make or break such an event like this. There were a few aerojumble stores, nothing if great significant interest, but enough aero stores to make the trip worthwhile. Good to see that the Antonov 2 was fired up and the radial engine left ground running for all to enjoy and hear. Old Sarum aerojumble is next in the Calender I believe.?

Just a reminder that the next aerojumble for 2015 is around the corner, this time Popham on the 4th May 2015, Bank Holiday Monday. Hope the weather behaves! A good event combined with classic cars and aircraft passing through the aerodrome.

The third Newark Aeroboot / Aerojumble date has been fixed for 17 October, 2015 and participation details will appear after the summer event that is running alongside Cockpit-Fest.

Nice trip down memory lane Gokone, aerojumbles as they use to be in the Golden days. Surely there must be a buried hoard out there somewhere just wanting to be found!

Yup. In my loft and garage and many other people’s lofts and garages

Ah, Kit!

Ah Nigel Spurs place at North scarle,to a teenage enthusiast this was an amazing place,had a few pieces from there ,I remember phantom ejector seats,pylons with WTM stencilled on,a lovely yet BDRTdamaged Bucc panel with the 12 Sqn fox on it,flying clothing,I found a victors AEO seat XL189 possibly? But it would not fit in my dads Vauxhall nova saloon,I was intending to go back but then an healthy interest in the female gender took over . What an idiot!
Newark Is a great event,I will return one day.
( sorry slightly off topic I know)

Never off-topic when discussing kit! I had a Victor escape hatch and a mechanically complete Mk.9 seat from Nigel’s once, and that was just one visit – a Nissan Bluebrd is brilliant with the seats down…Anyone feeling more aeroboots today would be awkward makes me wonder how we managed it every year with the more numerous ones we had to enjoy, AND still get along to Hanningfields to go through the racks in the yard and containers while stripping out things like Buccs, Canberras and Comets etc on many early and happy 90’s Saturday mornings – I reckon we were spoilt.

What we did know was that we had to make the most of it while we were there and we had some great stuff at good prices, unlike the dealer-distorted market of today. I had 20-25 Hunter control grips alone from Nigel on another occasion, and Tony D had 2 off me I think, with history. I sold the rest on at fair prices though one Dutchman didn’t think so and I still have a minter today – gave the other one away to a mate but maybe I shouldn’t have in retrospect. I had a healthy interest too in one female who lent me her old Volvo and it promptly broke down on the turn-off before Hanningfields.

After Andre came along on the day in question to pick up some Victor bits for Lindy that I had for him after he’d been to Hanningfields himself, I managed to get to a phone in a village school hall (no mobiles then) for the AA on her policy and then back to London after an AA man tested it twice and finally found under a locked bonnet a piece of slipped wood that had been bodged to hold the battery in place – I never saw the girlfriend much after that – you’d think these girlfriends would use better mechanics wouldn’t you?

1984 Aerojumble video on youtube, recognise anyone?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1so2GYIdII

Ah Nigel Spurs place at North scarle,to a teenage enthusiast this was an amazing place,had a few pieces from there ,I remember phantom ejector seats,pylons with WTM stencilled on,a lovely yet BDRTdamaged Bucc panel with the 12 Sqn fox on it,flying clothing,I found a victors AEO seat XL189 possibly? But it would not fit in my dads Vauxhall nova saloon,I was intending to go back but then an healthy interest in the female gender took over . What an idiot!
Newark Is a great event,I will return one day.
( sorry slightly off topic I know)

Nice trip down memory lane Gokone, aerojumbles as they use to be in the Golden days. Surely there must be a buried hoard out there somewhere just wanting to be found!

Good ‘Ol Whittick

I was surprised to see the negative comments re Whittick as I had many happy buys there over many years, and as someone who didn’t live close to it, it was still worthwhile in the main to go there. It was in a school hall with adequate parking, nice toilets and bar, and hot food could be had also. Some of the personal buys included a RAF Victor display model, A-10 procedures panel, Valiant co-pilots grip, Phantom throttle box and rudder bar pedals, and numerous instrumentation from sellers over 10-15 years such as John Birkett of Lincoln re Hunter, Bucc, Phantom, Victor etc, while Roy Bonser always had something for everyone – as he often has today when he has a table at NAM.

A delighted Steve Hague picked up a rare Venom night fighter main control panel almost 100% fitted out about 4 years before the boot ended and I bought a Tiger Moth panel for a pleased Naylan Moore along with Victor spares including cockpit nuclear blanking panels. Bucc nuclear role panels were £25 from Nigel Spurr before the MAS debacle which saw so much military aviation sparesholdings scrapped and lost to dealers and collectors, which saw Nigel having to go into ground equipment and diversifying after he lost his original tender contract to this disastrous govt-inspired concern.

Another contact picked up a complete Hastings column for £140 towards the end while another still had Vulcan AP’s for a tenner a time. I still have hard to get V bomber ILS light assemblies that dear Bert Coggins sold for £5 each, and a complete Javelin gunsight purchased when another old collector Bert Aggas sold all his collection before going into log books instead. He had complete sight units for around £150 each inc F-4, but the latter item was HEAVY. I also had a gun button and a lovely original compilation book of Schneider Trophy races inc many period ads that Roy also sold to me.

John used to sell Harrier stand by sights (port coaming) for £5 each and F6 auto-pilots for £10 – wished I’d had more! We’ll never forget packing up and going out to to the car park on one memorable occasion also to find a seller late(!) arriving, and on going through his truck, buying about 30 Spitfire “Pip-Squeak” early IFF boxes in good condition for £5 each. Some buyers at Shoreham later were very pleased to get them. A mate also remembers a seller called Rodney Rose who “aways had something of interest”.

Early and late Lightning throttle boxes, a mint Andover grip and a Victor pitot followed in later days along with various instrumentation inc Vulcan/Victor MFS main flight instruments for £10 ea and though it was tiring on the way back to London, a sleep on the way back as we do today from NAM used to get us back OK. People have to work with eBay these days as they see fit though the extorting and other aspects like lousy policing and selling policy rulings annoys many, while I don’t feel that a few more aeroboots would be too bad a thing as there were more then including the additional Shoreham at season’s end. A one-off at Rougham in the 90’s was cold, windy and a nightmare for some but in general we always seemed to get to the now-defunct ones OK including the still-surviving Popham though it isn’t as aviation-based as it used to be with more auto, tools and garden tat etc in with the mix.

The original Tangmere of course was excellent with use of museum and toilets, loads of kit and £3 entrance I think, but those are long-gone days now. The one I never went to as I think I was too late onto things in the early 90’s or was unaware of it at the time, was the fondly-recalled affair at Yeovilton where from what I was told the authorities interfered and loused it all up. I think there is a u-Tube of an early video showing Hurricane canopies and all manner of rare kit for sale, which I hope are still in original collections or passed on now. But not scrapped, as with the sickening MAS debacle.

Thank you for the good wishes – we’re getting there, slow but sure! 😉

Did anyone send up any flyers for the Brenzett Aerojumble?

Wishing Aeroboot every success…and just bumping up the Brenzett Aerojumble on 11 April for the folks down there!

Credit where credit is due, you’re quite right Anon that it was at your suggestion that I sought approval to get the details added to the NAM website! :eagerness:

IIRC there were some about these parts who thought that it was a ‘strange idea’ that would take away some of the ‘mystery’ of turning up at a sale to see what was being offered. Sorry that you cannot attend next weekend.

By my way of thinking, anything that promotes these types of event and gets more bits into the system can only be a good thing.

Air Ministry your listing has now been updated!

If anyone else has anything to add to the information about where to send the details is in the link above.

Six sleeps to go until #Aeroboot

Ah-em, didn’t I suggest, a few years ago, you publishing a list of what the stallholders were selling T.O.?;)

S**t!, I’m not able to attend next weekend’s a/j at Newark – and I wish I was. Got to take th’wife to a craft event up in the borders, something organised before Christmas not giving a thought to the new season’s jumbles. Silly me.

Aerojumbles have had a resurgence this last five years or so – though there’re only so many the (limited) market can stand before they become too frequent and therefore non-viable. E-bay hammered it for a while but many of us longed for a catch-up, sweaty handshake and a bit of hands-on with the bits and pieces of old aeroplanes and there was something of a resurgence. Now, e-Bay is a part of our lives and our buying & selling strategy and it’s not going to go away (nor do we want it to).

Best jumbles for me are the old Southern chestnut in the form of Shoreham (now Brenzett) and the bolt-on jumble at Cockpit Fest – that really is a cracker. There are most things to be had at that event which are the most dear to the (amateur) aviation preservationist’s heart – full seller’s stalls, always a few new traders (some of whom have no idea what their stuff’s worth), good crack, great turnout, great welcome, great museum and the opportunity to make a full weekend of it showing off one’s cockpit/stuff.

Whitwick never worked for me. I went two or three times, each time vowing never to bother going back only trying it again thinking it may have just been a bad one-off. It wasn’t a comfortable venue even though it wasn’t (for me) too far away. As suggested, a jumble can only really be viable (or, less of a financial risk) when staged as part of a museum set-up. It also helps to attract more people who have more to see for their money.

Anon.

I presume that you mean something like this!

Howard, could you please update this? It’s now 18,000 fasteners and there’s still a week to go. I forgot to include a mention of cheesehead scews too!

so far over 13,000 fasteners have been sorted out – in all shapes and sizes: mushroom head, hex head, countersunk, raised countersunk, roundhead, 8BA, 6BA, 4BA, 2BA, 1/4″ BSF, etc., etc.