Parts ID Help

good old 285….Welly….

the screw in the base of the head denotes a deWilde round which is a phosphorous tracer round…do be careful…there is a small ball bearing and picric acid in the tip/point.

Thanks Tony,

I didnt mess with the heads, I left them there, interesting mystery spoke to a local later who claimed a German Bomber crashed in that area funny how stories change,

I think this may be the clincher, scrubber has been scrubbing, number on it is 28507/1001, looks like the information was wrong, total oddball no idea as to an identity now time to search the records, full marks to Hampden Project

The item in your pic is one of the jointing-plates where the cross members of the geodetic sections meet. There must be a few hundred of those on a Wellington I should think. Of course….that is only an amateur view. A professional would tell you straight away! 😉

http://www.1jma.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3232&sid=064487d98308874f472b946196b14bbf

gives some more on the bullet!

good old 285….Welly….

the screw in the base of the head denotes a deWilde round which is a phosphorous tracer round…do be careful…there is a small ball bearing and picric acid in the tip/point.

I think this may be the clincher, scrubber has been scrubbing, number on it is 28507/1001, looks like the information was wrong, total oddball no idea as to an identity now time to search the records, full marks to Hampden Project

Hold on.. wasnt there something about someone finding one of these bullets and it turned out to be armor round or something ? Hope it is a spent round just in case!

Maybe a good scrub will reveal some numbers – as Tony says look out for 285.

Well I hope they are qualified, someone needs to be on here !

Found plenty of rounds like that previously. No doubt there will be a munitions expert along shortly, but presumably some kind of filling.

also found, something I have never seen before, a bullet head with a screw in the base, I doubt that will help any but I thought it very odd

The parts in the first pic are stiffener rails for the FN5 front turret ammunition cans.. I thought I had a pictuire on file to compare but I don’t..

Well….what do you expect? Let unqualified aviation archaeologists loose in a field and wonder why they cant identify what they find? Pah!

Call for someone qualified. Quick.:diablo:

If it helps, I found an identical datum plate on a Blenheim wreck off Thorney Island c.1976….on the other hand, having looked at the post above, I may have faulty memory syndrome and perhaps it was one of the Wellington wrecks there?

If it was a fighter , it must have had a radial engine made by Bristol as the two parts in the top left of the photo look like cooling gill linkages ( they should have a chunky square thread on them) . The forked bit is 100% Wimpey, it is part of the geodetic structure where it connects to the tubular parts especially near the rear turret or front turret, they can also be found on parts of the wings.

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Sorry I cant give too much information for obvious reasons, I was struggling to identify type, nothing that turned up seemed conclusive and just kept turning up similar looking components, those box stiffners I am sure I have seen them before on a Hurricane dig.

This is in the UK and is down as a fighter, did they use Longeron datum markers like that on other aircraft.

I am not convinced bomber there just isnt enough, its confined very generally to a 20 foot square, and hasn’t been touched before

Wellington

gets my vote too, the v shaped item in one of the phots goes that way…look for items starting 285….is this in a foreign land JC old fruit?

Wellington

Give us a clue JC… what has your own research about the crash provided? Date? Type?…….

Those rod fork ends look massive…..

Those stiffeners look a bit like those on Whitley cowlings, but wrong material – should be ally. Sorry, not much help.

Going home now from site thanks everyone, thanks Mark12 anyone got a picture of one, where were those labels fitted, in the rear ?

Item in the top right, is that part of the oil pump or coolant pump?