Can anyone assit in identifying the handle in the photo please. It was recovered from the site of a Mk 1 Lancaster.
You can clearly see that one end there was something attached by a single point (assuming a knob) and the other end is shaped similar to a car engine cranking handle (the part that locates on the engine).
No part numbers are visable but I feel it must be a recognisable part to someone that knows there Lancaster parts.
The other item shown may be nothing, but this also is unidentified.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Cheers
Richard
By: Peter - 4th January 2017 at 23:52
Could be.. 🙂
By: LW206 - 4th January 2017 at 16:39
I can see where your coming from with that Peter. It does look the same, curved underside and angled edge the other. The “dogs” that I describe could be what remains of the holes that took the pin that attached this item to the spars shown in your photo?
By: Peter - 4th January 2017 at 15:53
Hi Peter,
No, there’s no part number that I can see.
It almost looks like the cross bracing connection between the upper part of the landing gear knuckle joint see circled item in pic
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By: smirky - 4th January 2017 at 10:47
It reminds me of the hand crank for the generator of a field telephone or insulation tester, but I can’t think of a place for it on the Lancaster.
By: LW206 - 4th January 2017 at 09:52
Hi Peter,
No, there’s no part number that I can see.
By: Peter - 4th January 2017 at 02:10
Is there a part number on the side in the last pic?
By: pogno - 3rd January 2017 at 21:23
Just an uneducated comment but I think the crank like item would not have been like a car starter dog but was actually bolted to a shaft, it has broken off through the bolt hole. I also suspect it was a lever of some sort that actuated something else attached where the bolt head is.
Richard
By: LW206 - 3rd January 2017 at 16:37
For some reason I’m thinking Turret? Was there a way of rotating a Turret should the hydraulics fail?
By: Trolly Aux - 3rd January 2017 at 15:45
Fisrst part looks like some kind of winding handle of some sort, sorry I cannot help further.
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