Aviation related Car Boot finds or similar

The only aviation related Item I found at a car boot was a Corgi USAAF comemorative gift set with Sally B, P51 ‘Big Beautiful Doll and P47 No Guts No Glory for a fiver.

The M.39B Libellula first flew on July 22, 1943 (one month and 4 days before I was born!)

Thanks for that Robbo,

They cost me a tenner and the guy ‘chucked’ in a signed and framed 8×10 photo of XR219 (Maiden Flight out of Boscombe) Must post a pic, maybe someone can id the sigs ( over 30 of them).

seems like a good days browsing.

Picked a couple of books up at a second hand shop today.

The book of Miles Aicraft – Compiled by AH Lukins.
No year of publication but it lists the M.39B Libellula as the last model in production.

The book of Westland Aircraft – Compiled by AH Lukins.
No publication date but listed as senior members of the company are such legendary names as WEW Petter, HJ Penrose and the MD Eric Mensforth.

Both published by The Harborough Publishing Co and produced by Aircraft(Technical) Publications Ltd.

Not seen these before and wondered if anyone could put a publication year on them.

My best find ever was a Flight Engineers, 138 sqdrn log book sitting on a book shelf amongst a load of foriegn language books in a massive furniture warehouse! owner even knocked off a fiver from asking price………………Spent a fortune on a professional researcher though, but well worth it.

Came across a complete set of “Aircraft of the Fighting Powers” at a boot sale in Exeter.

Not a boot sale – but the hardware shop at the end of my road when I lived in London – old chap there had worked on HP V/1500 and Sopwith Camel production line in WWI. He gave me a Camel gunsight and the navigator’s lamp (like a tiny Anglepoise) from a V/1500 … now if only I could collect the rest of it!!!

…are Magnavon bucking bars???

HP

Sorry, I’ve been in the colonies too long I guess..

This is NOT me, but this guy has been very lucky with his Car Boot purchases!

(I am very jealous!)

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/flightdeck.htm

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/superflightdeck.htm

Look at the video on

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/flightdeck.htm

bucking bar is the american name for rivet block, these are the big lumps of metal you put on the tail of the rivet to react against, as pictured above.
they come in all shapes and sizes, and are frequently modified for specific jobs.

magnavon bars

quick ‘google’ bought up this.

rivetting tooling

…are Magnavon bucking bars???

HP

He was just waiting for someone to ask that 😀

Roger Smith

PS I don’t know either

What the hell….

…are Magnavon bucking bars???

HP

Living in So Cal I keep an eye open for Magnavon bucking bars. As used at NAA & Lockheed etc in LA during WWII. Got quite a few & actually use em instead of hiding em away someplace.

About a 100 years ago i bought a Walton, black and white super 8 silent film called THE SKYS THE LIMIT, from a boot sale…meaning to have it transferred to video one day but never got around to it. Looks to be in good order, box says ‘GET AIRBORNE-with ace flying club pilots & aerobatic fliers of the RAF’. Crude artwork on box showing Lightnings in formation,Tiger moth? and Magister?….A Rank Organisation Film,
I wonder if its now,or ever was available on Video or Dvd ?

I have this film on DVD. There is a chap selling a combination of these Walton aviation films on E.Bay for £5.00 each. They are b/w,silent and rather grainy but lots of nostalgia. “The Sky’s the Limit” is mainly RAF aerobatic teams filmed in 1963 with air-to-air footage of the “Red Pelicans” Jet Provosts and “Firebirds” Lightnings plus others.

About a year ago i found a collection of booklets called RP news cost me £1 at the time it’s ‘for all those interested in photographs of Aeroplanes, Railways and Ships’ first issue dates from july 1941 and goes on monthly till sept/oct 1945

cracking story, it would be really ironic if the car boot was held on burscough airfield. Nice to hear you donated it to millom to.

Forage Cap 🙂

Seems to be much less aeronautical junk on carboots these days – the “professional” dealers must be getting hungrier 😮 Used to be all sorts of instruments on most that I went to, picked up a couple of nice navigator’s angle poise lamps and the odd RAF marked escape axe in the past, but 50s dials don’t really do it for me! 😉

Best find was a nice original Luftwaffe Officer’s forage cap 😀 It was on a big boot sale & they were filming that silly TV show & all the “dealers” were trying to avoid getting on camera in case the tax man saw them?

I walked up behind the so-called TV celebrity “expert”, said excuse me & leaned over and picked it up right in front of him whilst he was enthusing over a horrible piece of wade china – stall holder was looking very bemused by it all. We moved out of camera shot & he quietly said he thought it was repro & wanted £7 but I haggled :rolleyes: got it for £4 – It was totally genuine, complete with badges & is now in the RAF Millom Museum collection 😀

i’ve bought a suprising ammount of aircraft related tooling at boot sales, rivet guns ,snaps and blocks, a hand powered huck gun, an almost new cherry max gun, stem countersinks etc. all of which came in handy when i had to use my own toolkit.
you see a suprising ammount of instruments at boot sales as well.

Odds ‘n’ sods mostly

including Corgi Viscount test model (50p)
Corgi lancaster test model (50p)
Southend Historic Aircraft Museum guide book (50p)

I found a flechette once (cant remember how much) a mate found some 43 pattern flying boots and another a lovely 6EFTS lapel badge (Sywells unit) never seen another one – lucky sods!

Oh and a 100lb USAAF oil bomb empty with no fin – looked like a rusty gas cylinder til i noticed the impeller !

TT