Speyer

Perfectly legitimate your honour, honest

Try explaining that to customs at Dover. lol.

No all above board, just a car park open boot change over, not at all suspicious to onlookers :highly_amused:

Sadly not, but presumably this is all above board and not a request to slyly half-inch parts from displays while nobody is looking? :highly_amused:

Just raising this again in the hope someone can help ?

Interesting parts, Brian.

What makes up the bulk of the sales items at Speyer then? Is it late/modern with a smattering of WW2, or what?

Where is this Speyer place? I’m just too lazy to look it up!

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Mike – Speyer – or Technical MuseumSpeyer is located beside the Rhine – close to Mannheim/Heidelberg. It is south of Frankfurt.

To get there from UK drive from Calais to Metz and then across into Germany pass Ramstein/Kaiserslautern and then down to Speyer.

The Hotel at the museum is good.

http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en

Two events per year – one in the Spring and one in the Autumn.

The stalls are a mix of militaria, books and aircraft parts. The aircraft are a mix of WWi to modern. More ww2 than you would normally expect as several sellers are diggers.

There are a few French sellers too – with different parts eg F84 NOS parts.

Lots of dials, fittings and grips.

Several instrument panel makers and book sellers.

There are a few Eastern Europe sellers who always have a good selection. The Stuka part I got was from Czech. The He111 from the estate of a former airman.

the OBÜ fuel/oil tank cap (in its various forms) was used exclusively on nearly every type of Luftwaffe aircraft, foreign versions also exist

Speyer

Interesting parts, Brian.

What makes up the bulk of the sales items at Speyer then? Is it late/modern with a smattering of WW2, or what?

Where is this Speyer place? I’m just too lazy to look it up!

Regards,

Anon.

Bushell it is hard to say where these parts are from unless it is taken directly from an aircraft.

I learned something today – the Pilatus P2 was not on my radar -so thank you.

These parts were sold as general Luftwaffe parts.

Given the number of 109 vs P2 – it is more likely to have been a 109 – but we are unlikely ever to know for sure.

Thank you Bushell.

I maybe should have made it fairer.

The parts are from in no order – Hawker Typhoon, He 111, Me 262 , Ju87 Stuka, F8 Crusader, 88mm and SD2 ; Me109.

Also Mitchell.

You maybe should say, Me 109 or Pilatus P2. They are the same.

Cees and Andy – yes and Yes.

Cees the Tiffie light cover was dug up in the Netherlands- at an airfield where two were buried.

Pic of one in use
http://airwarrior.afkamm.co.uk/Aerodynamics/hawker.jpg

There are some clues to two of the others in these links:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-774-0013-06%2C_Produktion_von_Heinkel_He_111.jpg

http://wwiimodeller.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Junkers-Ju87-Engine-14.jpg

Is that a 109 rudder or elevator balance weight?

Bruce?

That’s a Typhoon landing light cover I think.
Cees

Also a small Luftwaffe instrument panel (to mount a Luftwaffe clock in).

A hatch from an RAF aircraft recovered from a crash site by a Dutch boy in the war on which he wrote Royal Air Force in pencil.

And a balance weight.

Thank you Bushell.

I maybe should have made it fairer.

The parts are from in no order – Hawker Typhoon, He 111, Me 262 , Ju87 Stuka, F8 Crusader, 88mm and SD2 ; Me109.

Also Mitchell.

The bottom picture with the fuel cap labelled Kraft Stoff (naturally) is from a Pilatus P2 or Me 109.