Any ideas what this is for?

I would say then that most of the systems haven’t been printed out on the right hand portion, normally you would expect CAB, HYDS, HYDP, OXY, OILP, OILS and others on a complex aircraft, unless as someone else has suggested it is an engineers panel version as the captions do seem to relate to an APU or single portion of systems.

After a few hours looking at pictures of cockpits I have worked out its for

(drumroll)

AW Argosy C1

Goes right in the upper middle of the dashboard.

Ta da.

Chris

Hi Gents
Not Wessex the Wessex was more similar to Pagen01’s pics but with two fire buttons no APU.

Regards

Jon

Could this have been a dedicated panel for an APU, pehaps mounted at the engineer’s station ?

Yes APU Fail seems right. Can only guess at the others, Fuel Flow Warning, Engine Over Heat?? The relevant pilots notes would tell you, but you need to id the unit first!
I wonder if your unit didn’t have the other captions applied, seems very basic to have just four warnings, ie there are no oxy, cabin, hyd fails at all. A helicopter sounds like it could fit, but one with an APU.
The Mk.no. would have been in your unstamped part of the plate.

Thanks for the responses:

The captions read

FIRE, FFW, OIL, APUF, IEOH on the red primary

nothing on the orange secondary captions.

Data plate just shows C2180 and serial number 040. Ref number and unlabeled other are un-stamped. Mod record plate is clean as well. grey buttons are T1 to T3.

I would assume that APUF in the Primary captions refers to an Auxilary Power Unit??

Not Wessex, thats too long, this is wide.

Warning panel

The captions on the flip-up section may (possibly) give a clue to the type of aircraft it was fitted to.

Anon.

I’ve come across these before, can’t remember exactly which type of a/c but either Wessex or Wasp/Scout come to mind

Yes thanks for that Bruce!:cool:

Its similar to the Wessex ones I have been selling.

I do believe I recognise the one above!

Bruce

Hmm?
On the data plate itself with the company name etc it should say ‘Indicator Unit’ and then a Type No, Serial No, Ref No, and a Mk No.

Basically as aircraft got more complex there were more and more warning lights being sprinkled around the cockpit, these SWPs were a way of centralising it all into one panel. It works in conjunction with ‘attention getting’ lights in the pilots field of vision and audible warning in the headset, he would then refer to the panel to see what system had failed.

As it’s a slow news day Chris here’s some pics of a Mk.II (Sea Vixen)

The buttons are, T = Test, M = Mute, C = Cancel, & GT = Ground Test

Purely a wild guess, but wondering if yours is Hunter?

Its got MK557 painted in white on the bottom next to dataplate. No mod record.

Standard Warning Panel, not sure what type that was fitted in.
The little oblong windows have vaious captions written in them (HYD, OIL, OXY etc) and light up depending where the failure is sensed. Some types also have fire warning buttons that light up for each of the fire detection zones, can be pressed to extinguish. Other buttons press to cancel warnings and audible warning tones.
Most 50s/60s jets etc had them but there are slightly different models.
Can you see what Mk it is?