This is my first post here and I’m hoping that I’ve come to the right place… 🙂
I’ve been spending some time reading through the many excellent threads and I’m amazed of all this wonderful knowledge here.
I work at a local aviation museum here in Sweden. (I hope that you will understand my bad English!)
It is situated at the former Swedish Air Force base F 10 at Ängelholm. We get quite a few donations from our visitors with many interesting objects.
A few years ago a farmer came with this part that he claims comes from a Heinkel He 111 that crashed in a nearby field in 1944.
This Heinkel was a very unique one since it was one of the few equipped with BMW 132 radials. It was a Lufthansa machine called “Augsburg” that was used as a trainer at Kastrup airport in Denmark when a Danish mechanic stole it and fled to Sweden. It was shot down by the Swedes and it crashed in a field but the “pilot” survived without injuries. He crawled as far back as he could in the fuselage just before the plane hit the ground!
It’s a magneto of an aircraft engine but I’m curiuos if it’s really from that plane.
What can you tell me about this part? I find it odd that the text says “Made in Germany”. Why the English?
Andreas
By: Hairyplane - 4th July 2014 at 23:14
Part
Its a magneto.
Hairyplane
By: RudolfFilip - 4th July 2014 at 15:39
Thank you all!
I guess that it might actually come from that Heinkel then…
I’ll try to take a few better shots of the plates later to be sure.
Andreas
By: N.Wotherspoon - 2nd July 2014 at 19:47
I recall being somewhat surprised when cleaning a component recovered from a Defiant MkI crash site, lost April 1941 and finding it clearly stamped “Made in Germany”! Especially as it was lost on a patrol looking for reported raiders and one of the Squadron’s aircraft shot down a Ju88 that night.
By: Clint Mitchell - 2nd July 2014 at 14:57
Might those parts have been manufactured pre-war? The Do17 was nearing the end of it’s production life early – summer 1940 or the stamp is in English because it’s an internationally recognised language for export purposes?
By: Sealand Tower - 2nd July 2014 at 13:59
Interesting to see that some of the Dornier cockpit components now being conserved at Cosford also have Made in Germany written in English on them
By: Clint Mitchell - 2nd July 2014 at 13:56
The He111V-14 (He111G-3 , W.Nr.1884 “Augsburg” (D-ACBS) He111L) was initially intended as a civil transport with Lufthansa prior to the outbreak of WW2 so I can only presume that the part labelled ‘Made in Germany’ was made during a period when the German company Bosch would have been exporting parts to other countries thus requiring the ‘Made in Germany’ stamp. I guess that after the outbreak of WW2 all German companies would not be exporting parts to English speaking countries so would not require the ‘Made in Germany’ stamp? So on that basis I would say that theres a good chance your magneto comes from a pre war aircraft. The ‘FL’ number stamped on the main dataplate would enable researchers to specify exactly which type of aircraft the part came from if you could provide it? Might be worth posting all of the codes stamped on the dataplate just to be sure.
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July 2, 2014 at 12:47 pm