Aircraft Panel I.D. Please

yep worth restoring, always nice to have something a bit rare, mind you I have to many other projects to start building a cockpit around the panel 😀

That’s really great thanks to all, there is a survivor in Australia so I may email them for a close up picture, unless there are anymore cockpits around?

Heh that’s a thought, you may have the best-preserved one in Europe!

Unless anyone knows different ………

That’s really great thanks to all, there is a survivor in Australia so I may email them for a close up picture, unless there are anymore cockpits around?

I don’t think there’s any doubt. As Smirky says, different versions, different layouts, but most of the ingredients on your panel are to be found here on the RCAF Mk. 31 “just not necessarily in the right order”.

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Taking a wild guess here, but it COULD be the LH side panel from a Bristol Frightener indeed 😉

http://s1270.photobucket.com/user/m0byd0g/media/08-08-201222-50-53.jpg.html
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May contact Brooklands to get pics of the Viking, and look for some more freighter pics, but we are getting there , thanks :eagerness:

If the assy number is 496 or 498 then it could be from a Viking. Googling the Vickers type numbers gives 496 to the 3 rd prototype & 498 to BEA Viking 1A. The interesting bit though is the Steady/flash Nav lights labelling which I would associate with a military type – unless its from one of the Kings flight Vikings? It is also possible that that assy could be from a Valetta using existing drawings?
Brooklands Museum any help?
Keith

I’m sure that’s what it is:D:cool:

Also has the distinctive stepped cutout at the top right for the control column lock thingy and the bottom slope to clear the control linkage, plus the double staggered row of dimmers. There were a lot of different types of Bristol Freighter and a lot of different customers so it is not surprising that the instrument fit is not exactly as the available photographs.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Pacific-Western-Airlines/Bristol-170-Freighter/1965578/L/&sid=cec2c27b35e77064eacea7f54dec7736

I found this one

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_3MvvLwD_Y/UdxHbxTCnjI/AAAAAAAAELY/g8vRKNOg9pY/s640/3+-Viking+cockpit.jpg

but having looked at it the legends are the wrong way up for an overhead – it looks more like a side panel.

Bristol Freighter cockpit port side!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dafydd359/2714963051/in/photostream/

I think you may be on to something with the Bristol Freighter or Bristol aircraft, panel looks the right size and type of instruments, also I have found another pic which shows the type of labels on the cockpit panels of the freighter are exactly the same as on mine, shame theres not a better pic of that side panel ! Maybe the Old FB Bristol inspectors stamps became B. ?

Also it has blind flying panel and windscreen wipers !

How about the Wayfarer ? Or a better pic of the Viking may help. Ant.

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If it’s from a Viking, Worcs Aviation, one must assume that it’s inverted in your photographs and, if so, it must be the port panel. I’ve looked at the manufacturer’s specification document for the Viking 1B, which lists the following instruments on the port panel above the pilot:

# cockpit lighting switches (ultra violet, red and white)
# position indicator – for undercarriages
# position indicator – for flaps
# distant reading compass control switch
# pressure head heater switch
# navigation lights switch
# landing lamp control switches
# switches for passenger notices
# chassis warning horn, test push button
# port propeller feathering switch
# port engine fire warning light
# port engine fire extinguisher button
# steward’s call button
# entrance door warning light

The specification document does not include any reference to a side panel. It simply mentions:

Instruments on wall (port side):
– drift sight
– magnetic compass

I hope that this may be of help. If it is and it suggests to you that your panel does originate from a Viking, should you need more information from, or copies of the relevant pages of, the specification document, please send me a PM.

I found this one

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_3MvvLwD_Y/UdxHbxTCnjI/AAAAAAAAELY/g8vRKNOg9pY/s640/3+-Viking+cockpit.jpg

but having looked at it the legends are the wrong way up for an overhead – it looks more like a side panel.

Bristol Freighter cockpit port side!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dafydd359/2714963051/in/photostream/

The de-icer rheostats go back to WW2 and were used on Whitley’s and other types. I expect these ones are 24v?

Thanks for the comments, it all helps. haven’t been able to find any god pics of a Viking overhead panel, but will have a look at pics of the mentioned airliners, but would those have had a blind flying panel to illuminate?

Don’t know if this helps; but the “Airscrew de-icer control” probably relates to the Rotol System which was first used on Viscounts and Britannias.

I was thinking twin engine because of the pressure head heat No 1 & No 2 , but maybe that’s not right ?

I think it refers to the pitot tubes, there is a windscreen wiper switch though which should narrow things down a bit.

I was thinking twin engine because of the pressure head heat No 1 & No 2 , but maybe that’s not right ?

I think 50’s would be right, the broken switches and dimmers are easy enough to find, just the I.D. Aaahhh :confused:

The number sounds Vickers Viking ish.

It looks deffo 50s. I don’t think it is Avro or York, I was thinking Beverley but can’t match anything up.

Why does it have to be two engine?