Crash axe

Bloody ‘Brown Jobs’…..

😀

You wait til you see the one sheet method that we used in the Anglians. That’ll make yer toes curl. 😀

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They used toilet paper….. :confused:

Yep. One up, one down, one to polish.

That’s if they could stand the thought of baring all at minus 30 degrees… 😮

Think about it, chaps. Would you be able to concentrate on your job whilst carting klingons round in -30 degrees cold for six hours at a time?

Didn’t Michael Bentine have to deal with a group of Aussie airmen who kept “losing” Elsans in “combat” over Germany?

Adrian

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They used toilet paper….. :confused:

Cheers

Thanks
Peter looks good. Will be going in the flight engineers compartment of my 1/48 Halifax. Mounted horizontaly but looks as if it would work. An obscure topic but how about a photo thread about internal fittings on vintage aircraft.
The precise design of the toilet paper holder in the halifax has been of interest to me for some time but there again I am a bit wierd.

Thanks
Phil

Axe stowage pics

Here ya go…

According to my Halifax references there is another way of stowing the crash-axes.

There is a metal stud with a “knob” on it over which the oval opening in the head of the axe fits en the head is then turned 90 degrees. The head is thus locked.

HTH

Cees

Here is a shot of axe in Halifax NA337’s rear turret. I will see what else I can find.

The mount in our lanc is a small leather cub for the base of the shaft and a simple leather strap that fits underneath the axe head. sorry no pic though

Cripes, have seen the installation but dont have photos, sorry – Cees might be able to help or one of the Nanton boys….? Maybe Peter with his Lanc – think they are generic fit….

You definitely want a ‘P’ type though…

All t best

TT

Thanks all

Hi
texan Tomcat thats the bit I want. I Have a good idea what the axe looked like its the stowage I need to tie down. A pic of a stowed fire axe would be cool.

Thanks guys
Phil

Yikes, not heard that before –

I remember that the P shaped axes had a triangular leather holder which held half the head and was affixed to the airframe, then the shaft was attached by a spring clip…

That do you Phil?

CRASH AXE

Yep that’s a fireman’s axe – I have one from a Defiant dig – identical to the Battle one above, though no corrosion & rubber handle intact with the volts casting & AM with a crown marking & date 1940 – will try to get some pics – it is a little miss-shaped though! 😮

I have been told the glider ones only had the “P” shape with no spike as they were much more likely to have be used 😮 and swinging a spiked version around in a crowded glider fuselage was going to hurt someone!

Unless AM marked I’d make that a Firemans Axe….different head….

TT

Thought you might like piccies of one in fair condition….

Crash Axe or in this case the Axe has crashed.

I have two for my project, one original which was liberated from a downed glider near Eindhoven at the end of the war and one which was used in the Boeing 747. The look very similar apart from the 20.000 volts bit.

Cheers

Cees

Axe to grind?

You might have to use your imagination but here is the one from the Battle recovery in France a couple of weeks back.

Mark