Mystery Part Found In The Garden

And another sidetrack. What did the other end of the bungee attach to?

Moggy

Would the cannon-armed Spitfires flown by 19 Sqn (Mk Ib?) have had these covers on the machine-gun positions or were the wings built without them?

A clue (possibly) is what appears to be significant traces of PRU blue. Looks as if it has been painted over the dark green on the outside but most has come off which one might expect in an impact like that.

Since a PRU spit was flown with no guns and always had gun tunnel plugs, this might explain it. Years ago we found three or four on another PRU Spitfire crash site in East Sussex.

Certainly not from a Hurricane.

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fighterace..yep i sniffed on a website Spitfire Spares weeks ago and learned 300 was Mk I and 08 was wing panel but nothing more…googled the numbers stamped on the part and ‘stumbled’ on you guys who solved the mystery….if i only knew what aircraft it was off…it certainly is the worst for wear i reckon hitting the ground hard.

got out the magnifying glass but could not see any writing gun camera……
interestingly..as i said the piece was given to me with provenance it came from Hurricane V7616 46 Squadron flown by Belgian Roger De Cannart Du Hamale shot down over Swingfield Nov 1 1940…so i originally researched that and got a photo of him and flight ops logs etc from Belgian Historic Aviation Assoc. and RAF Museum………so.was same piece used for gun camera and gun ports?

With a 300 prefix i doupt it was from any hurricane or even it fitted the curve of the leading edge of the wing. Thats a spitfire part number

Well done posting the images Alan. 🙂

Moggy
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got out the magnifying glass but could not see any writing gun camera……
interestingly..as i said the piece was given to me with provenance it came from Hurricane V7616 46 Squadron flown by Belgian Roger De Cannart Du Hamale shot down over Swingfield Nov 1 1940…so i originally researched that and got a photo of him and flight ops logs etc from Belgian Historic Aviation Assoc. and RAF Museum………so.was same piece used for gun camera and gun ports?

We can see you’ve been fretting over what it might be Alan, you’ve chewed that pencil to bits! 😀

If you look very closely at the camouflaged ‘outside’ you might see it stamped Gun Camera, I have one which confused me till I found the writing!

got to be quite rare surely?

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Here’s two pics of the part i have…even the RAF Museum didn’t know what it was.

Alan.

You need to open a (free) account with Photobucket ( http://photobucket.com/ ) or Flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/)

These are effectively online albums

You upload your images to there

Once uploaded each gives you the ability to copy an image URL for that picture, which you then paste into post. The picture then appears like magic

You will recognise the url you need as it is enclosed by the image tags

Give this a try before we get round to doing it for you.

Best regards

Moggy
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i am new and would like to post pics of the part I have but can’t figure out how..or i could email them to one of you more experienced folk and let you post them..
many thanks
alan

Does he need a bit help with the weeding? I’m good at getting those really deep ones out!!

Its very nice provenance or not.

I think you will find it is called a Tunnel Plug.

If the aircraft was flown without the guns in place then tunnel plugs had to be fitted.

I have a similar part

i have a similar part 30008 4359 given to me 15 years ago and at that time said to have come off a Hurricane flown by Belgian pilot and shot down over Kent Nov. 1 1940. This forum solved the mystery! how do i post pics of it?

..from the Spitty parts book, temp cover for the gun ports.

Now the cider has worn off…. Yes, and that piece was alledgedly from an operational loss. He was, however, sold it as a bit of Hurricane so the providence not great.

How come this part ended up in a garden????? :confused: