Can anybody help ID this Oil Tank? The serial no. on the data plate suggests Lincoln, but the Lincoln Mk.30A oil tanks are shaped very differently. However, the design of the attachment fittings are similar. Maybe the tank is for the Lincoln Mk.31?
By: bazv - 23rd August 2017 at 20:21
Originally posted by powerandpassion
Now you are going to tell me the UK invented the Spitfire.**rebadged Heinkel!
Whatever did happen to Victor45 ? 😀 (musta changed his name to powerandpassion 😉
By: Nicko - 23rd August 2017 at 09:38
Thanks, mate. I’m off to eat some road-kill for dinner.
By: powerandpassion - 19th August 2017 at 08:28
This is blatant, koala bashing, anti antipodeanism ! Australia did operate an A.I.D. There are numerous documents and logbooks in the ANAM Moorabbin Archives (in the state of Victoria, which Queen Victoria was named after) attesting to this fact, so the oil tank may be of Australian origin. I have no idea if it is a Lincoln tank. It may be a long range oil tank as similar ‘custom’ tanks were fitted to PR41 Mosquitos to extend range. I am off to feed some gum leaves to the koalas to try and calm them down ! A.I.D. British, strewth ! Now you are going to tell me the UK invented the Spitfire.*
*rebadged Heinkel!
By: chippie51 - 18th August 2017 at 09:12
AID – Aeronautical Inspection Directorate. Very much UK.
By: Nicko - 18th August 2017 at 03:11
Good suggestion! I don’t know much about the Lincoln testbeds in Australia. I know of two Python Lincolns – RE339 and RE418.
Are AID inspection stamps Australian only or were they used in the UK too?
By: Wyvernfan - 17th August 2017 at 07:44
Any chance it could be from a Lincoln but from an engine testbed example, using a modified oil tank?!
Rob
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