Need the toilet!

The elsan in the Southend Beverley had its own compartment behind the cockpit and crew area where the mainspar passed through the fuselage. It was a big empty space with the elsan fairly central so it looked like a throne room.

cant guarentee youll get a yes, but the email address is

[email]info@neam.org.uk[/email]

chairman is Dr Hugh Newell

does any one have photos of intact, as installed, Elsan Toilets?

This is an Elsan fitted in a Shack MR.2, I guess they changed a bit over the years though.

If it was anything like the Elsan, that I had the dubious pleasure of dealing with, in my late teens and early twenties, it would have been filled 50-75% with a dark, pungent fluid, which would have stunk the fuselage out, in the unlikely event of the lid having been left up (that would also have invited spillage during taxying and take off.) Anyone in the U.K., who can remember Jeyes Fluid, will have a pretty good idea.
One ex-Blenheim pilot told me of the fun and games they had with the “P” tube, since it always froze during flights, and, fairly understandably, the ground crew baulked at handling it. He said that it was quite a common occurrence, to see pilots bashing a “snake” over the wing’s leading edge, to persuade the contents to come out.
Edgar

in the same ‘mode’ … and not wanting to sound like a ‘potty mouth’… does any one have photos of intact, as installed, Elsan Toilets? (just another modelling ref question) I’d like to know whether they resembled anything more than the non-descript ‘can’ as seen in so many cut-away illustrations.

Make sure you get a good one !!
They were fitted in the Mossie NF36. The only time I used one when I clipped it back in place, which was close to the floor, most of what I’d carefully put in it came out all over the cockpit floor. When we investigated after landing we discovered that some insect had built its nest in the little rubber tube where it exited under the fuselage.

Chairman sounds good to me Scott! I can’t keep up with the titles and positions in the museum world any more…

up to you, erm, maybe to the chairman, or the projects manager?

pick one lol and il give you the email address

Thank you Scott, I will do just that! Should I address it to anyone in particular or make it a “Dear Sir/Madam” job?

Thanks again for the lead 🙂

TT, send an email to NEAM and ask, i believe we have 2 or 3 and only 1 on display

Scott

Good point, well persented! – I should’ve clarified “does not need to be serviceable!”

We’ve got one on display in ‘319,, I wouldn’t like to test it though. I’ve a feeling it’ll leak like a sieve, then your back to square one :rolleyes: