Wellington Mk.IC – Beam Guns

Surely you mean brooklands.

Yes, you’re right. Brooklands it is!

Bri 😮

Surely you mean brooklands.

If you can get down to the brilliant De Havilland museum at London Colney, Herts, they have a real Wellie – albeit an unskinned one retrieved from the water.

I have a few photos, but don’t have the account to put them in this forum. Maybe their website has pictures also.

Bri 🙂

If you can get down to the brilliant De Havilland museum at London Colney, Herts, they have a real Wellie – albeit an unskinned one retrieved from the water.

I have a few photos, but don’t have the account to put them in this forum. Maybe their website has pictures also.

Bri 🙂

Wellington Mk.1c-Beam Guns

Two Browning .303″ Machine Guns for firing towards the beam are mounted amidships, one at each side of the fuselage, the port and starboard insallations being identical but of opposite hand. Each gun projects through a flexable sealing cover in the side of the fuselage, and is pivoted vertically in a mounted frame;the latter provides for movement of the gun in travers while, for elevation and depression, the whole of the assembly is hinged about supporting brackets fixed to the fuselage structure, at each end of the shaft supporting the mounting frame. A good field of vision is provided by windows in the side of the fuselage, one of which gives an unobstructed view for using the refector sight over the full range of gun movment. I hope this will help, I’m unable to find any drawings with my notes but its now a long time since those days when they were taken. N King.