Unidentified aircraft part find?

Obviously Supermarine Spitfire!:rolleyes:

I think Submarine Spitfire is more likely…:dev2::dev2::dev2::dev2::dev2:

Obviously Supermarine Spitfire!:rolleyes:

I agree about the bolts being British, I am fairly sure I have seen stainless steel bolts with the same format of number stamped into them. Vickers Armstrong certainly used stainless steel parts with SS on the end of part numbers.

What made you think that?

It was something of the format of the part numbers on the bolts; however…

…what made me think of Bristol (erroneously ‘Stirling’) was the ‘SS’ in the part number on the bolt (which is common to many Bristol aero-engine sub-assemblies) but looking again at the condition of the bolt (assuming it has been in seawater) I assume this now means Stainless Steel!

No doubt these bolts are standard parts but whether they are standard across the wartime aircraft industry or whether they can be linked to a particular manufacturer I do not know?

I still stand by the statement that they are British bolts.

:eagerness:

Haha, thanks Cees. Please don’t shoot the messenger!

At least it’s a bowl of sea water with a serial number on it…. 😉

I haven’t got an exact location for the find. I can contact him later on if that will be necessary to identify it.

Stirling sounded exciting because there are so many Stirling experts on here. What made you think that?

I’m hoping the serial numbers on the bolt would yield a definite answer. Thanks for getting the ball rolling though 🙂

This is getting more difficult every time, what’s next? A bowl of sea water where once a piece of dissolved aluminium used to be (only joking).
I very much like these identification quests.
Cees

Actually, I’m thinking of Bristol part numbers…..so I’ll change my guess to something made by Bristol.

Looks like it has come out of the sea; where exactly was it recovered?

It’s British…..a guess (from the bolt part numbers); Stirling?