Hello all!
I hoping someone here can help identify the types these items could have been used in.
No camera at the moment so it`ll be serial and Air Ministry reference numbers im afraid.
First off not a instrument,but a cockpit lamp
Mark IA AM Ref: No5c/446.
Fuel Gauge for No1 & Long Range Tanks,
AM ref cannot be read,but has british patent numbers: 525092/537833/545730.
Same gauge as above but for port and starboard tanks(no: 4 tank)
and same patent numbers.
A pair of Engine Speed indicators MKIVB
0-5000 rpm range
AM Reference number: 6A/778
Smiths Boost gauge.
No AM reference can be found,but it has a small data plate with the following stamped on it.
Code:63BG
Serial number: 89669
Any help most welcome!
Ben.
By: Die_Noctuque - 24th September 2008 at 21:28
Also known as servicing lamps by chance? If so, then the Victor was liberally outfitted with them.
Yes indeedy!
The possibilities are endless 😀
By: Robert Hilton - 24th September 2008 at 20:39
Hi Flyer
Your cockpit lamp (Mk1A Dome) has been used in a whole host of aircraft throughout the postwar years also, in fact they were still “airworthy” in the Canberra PR9’s retired in 2006. They tended to be used in equipment bays and hatches (ie battery bay and rear fuselage on Canberras of most marks), and were used on the ceiling of the rear crew quarters of B and TT mark Canberra’s to provide general illumination in that area.
I can provide the necessary bulb if you ever fancy powering the old thing up 😉
Also known as servicing lamps by chance? If so, then the Victor was liberally outfitted with them.
By: Die_Noctuque - 24th September 2008 at 20:19
lamp
Hi Flyer
Your cockpit lamp (Mk1A Dome) has been used in a whole host of aircraft throughout the postwar years also, in fact they were still “airworthy” in the Canberra PR9’s retired in 2006. They tended to be used in equipment bays and hatches (ie battery bay and rear fuselage on Canberras of most marks), and were used on the ceiling of the rear crew quarters of B and TT mark Canberra’s to provide general illumination in that area.
I can provide the necessary bulb if you ever fancy powering the old thing up 😉
By: Cambridge Flyer - 21st September 2008 at 17:51
Thanks for the help folks!
Maybe when my Chipax project gets to an advance stage i`ll have a shot at recreating the Mosquito Instrument panels.
Ben.
By: wieesso - 21st September 2008 at 16:56
It would appear (thanks to google) that the fuel gauges and cockpit lamp are as fitted to Mosquito aircraft.
I can count Chipmunk out for the Engine Speed indicators,they use 6A/1299 items.
Not found a good pic of a Mosquito cockpit yet which shows the RPM gauges.
Regards,
Ben.
Maybe this one?
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=story_line_child&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000192&sl=3207&pos=1#4
By: Flightpath - 21st September 2008 at 16:55
Hi,
my RAAF book shows 6A/788 RPM gauges were used in Mossies, Beaufighters & Sunderlands.
cheers,
-John
By: Cambridge Flyer - 21st September 2008 at 16:38
It would appear (thanks to google) that the fuel gauges and cockpit lamp are as fitted to Mosquito aircraft.
I can count Chipmunk out for the Engine Speed indicators,they use 6A/1299 items.
Not found a good pic of a Mosquito cockpit yet which shows the RPM gauges.
Regards,
Ben.
By: FLY.BUY - 21st September 2008 at 16:09
A pair of Engine Speed indicators MKIVB
0-5000 rpm range
AM Reference number: 6A/778
If its the one I’m thinking of, Is this not applicable to multi engined props, varisty, mossie etc? maybe even Chippies (obviusly being single engined.)
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September 21, 2008 at 12:12 pm