HP Hyderabad Prop Hub Clock – nice but costly?

[QUOTE=Creaking Door]So we know what it isn’t…

WOW L@@K! MEGA-Rare Hawker SPITFIRE PROPELLER from the actual plane used by DOUGLAS BADER (who was born with TIN LEGS) to shoot down RUDOLF HESS flying HITLER’S personal Messerschmitt 109…THIS IS TRUE ‘cos I’ve got a MAGIC telephone that you can ring RAF DUXFORD in 1941 and they say it’s TRUE!

QUOTE]

crashed in Liverpool c.1942….

TT

Radial engined spitfire perhaps ?

So we know what it isn’t…

WOW L@@K! MEGA-Rare Hawker SPITFIRE PROPELLER from the actual plane used by DOUGLAS BADER (who was born with TIN LEGS) to shoot down RUDOLF HESS flying HITLER’S personal Messerschmitt 109…THIS IS TRUE ‘cos I’ve got a MAGIC telephone that you can ring RAF DUXFORD in 1941 and they say it’s TRUE!

So what is it?

Farman reduction gear, radial engine, probably Bristol.

The ratio looks more like Centaurus than Hercules.

Centaurus and four bladed prop…

Tempest II, Buckingham, Buckmaster or Brigand?

Any educated guesses?

WA$.

Why the need to modify or cut up a prop…

Usually because it’s a salvaged hub / blade after it got busted by contact with the ground…

nice but VERY expensive piece on Ebay?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RAF-COLLECTIBLE-HANDLEY-PAGE-HYDERABAD-PROPELLOR-BOSS_W0QQitemZ180037438940QQihZ008QQcategoryZ66528QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ouchhhh!

regards

Mark Pilkington

Why can’t people just leave a piece of history alone? Why the need to modify or cut up a prop. I left mine alone as I found it. I am only the current caretaker and someday it will pass to someone else to take care of.

ITS TRUE IT SAYS SO ON EBAY

Sorry all you knowledgable guys the link for the prop hub says it is Spitfire, frankly I am disappointed so many of you got it wrong, serves me right for not believing more in the truth that is ebay !!!!!! 🙂

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140040842784&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=004

Cheap at half the price?

…a helicopter that is!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=020&item=300037534094&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

WA$.

7:46

…but here we have the added bonus that the clock is correct twice a day. :rolleyes:

Mark

I think your one has more character Pete.

“Postage included in the asking price” well, Cloud Cuckoo Land must be a bloody long way away then!
I would challenge this prat that this one is probably equally as rare, and after all, that`s his lame excuse for asking £53 grand.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1917-WW1-Rolls-Royce-Eagle-Prop-Hub_W0QQitemZ170037375146QQihZ007QQcategoryZ2983QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Rant over.

Pete

So I take it you are not interested then, your credit card is safe ?

Here is another one with high ambitions, all beit a lot cheaper than the mahogony lump of nonsense, and its Spitifre it says so on ebay so it must be true !

Steady everyone dont get carried away with this prop hub fest !

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VERY-RARE-SPITFIRE-PROPELLOR-GEAR_W0QQitemZ140040842784QQihZ004QQcategoryZ60824QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

“Postage included in the asking price” well, Cloud Cuckoo Land must be a bloody long way away then!
I would challenge this prat that this one is probably equally as rare, and after all, that`s his lame excuse for asking £53 grand.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1917-WW1-Rolls-Royce-Eagle-Prop-Hub_W0QQitemZ170037375146QQihZ007QQcategoryZ2983QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Rant over.

Pete

Ah, the old rare=valuable argument. Doncha just love it.

I bought a Vampire T-11. The RAF Museum dont have one of those either. Should I sell it to them for £53,920?

The Spitfire propeller hub isnt…..

Bruce

I do, but it just comes out £53,920 and i break down in hysterical laughter,

Has anybody else tried to say “HP Hyderabad Prop Hub Clock” out loud??

I challenge you 😀

this genuine spitfire foot pump seems a much better buy?

regards

Mark Pilkington

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RAF-AM-1940-BATTLE-of-BRITAIN-SPITFIRE-WHEEL-FOOTPUMP_W0QQitemZ300034653412QQihZ020QQcategoryZ112473QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

You are bidding on a very interesting item.It is a WWII RAF AM AIR MINISTRY BATTLE of BRITAIN period FOOTPUMP!!This would have been used to pump up all manner of things-bicycles,car tyres and possibly tail wheels/main wheels on smaller aircraft-I presume they would use a compressor on larger bomber wheels etc

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Here is another one with high ambitions, all beit a lot cheaper than the mahogony lump of nonsense, and its Spitifre it says so on ebay so it must be true !

Steady everyone dont get carried away with this prop hub fest !

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VERY-RARE-SPITFIRE-PROPELLOR-GEAR_W0QQitemZ140040842784QQihZ004QQcategoryZ60824QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

A ‘look at me, look at me’ stunt?

To get anywhere near its perceived value that starting price should have it’s decimal point moved at least two digits to the left.

Mark

Wow. Someone is either living in cloud cuckoo land or has the decimal point in the wrong place. I’d suggest it’s about £53k too expensive 😉 And it’s not even all that nice a piece in my opinion (given that it’s been chopped up to a great extent).

Given that there’s a supposedly unique two bladed wooden Spitfire prop available online for £7000, and many other interesting props from the same site at £1250 upwards… it rather puts it in perspective I think?