What ever happened to this relic?

In store at Belton House….

Just to say I have a 1940 dated and BMARC marked 20mm round, an early date for a British made 20mm or not ?

See my post above………this comment was added after the OP

There is a comment at the bottom that says “The german prop was not scrapped it is in a store building at belton house”

‘S uncanny!
I remember going up to the playing field as part of our history course for ‘O’level to see the undulations in the ground that were evidence of medieval strip farming; while we were there the master pointed out the uneveness that showed where those bombs had fallen.

The stone walls were still there and, during the power cuts of the Heath years the old gas lighting system was pressed into service.
The masters were a tad more sympathetic, I think!

Apologies for the thread drift.

Teekay…..I guess we were at the same school – thirty years apart!….

Kings School? Back in the day the place was like a being sent to prison – at age 7! Stone walls, some sadistic masters, and no escape. In the war we slept on mattresses in the lowest corridors, like in bomb shelters. I remember finding shrapnel from AA guns in the yard, and the playing fields had two or three bomb craters that were probably meant for the adjacent rail lines.

I also remember the shock of seeing a German aircraft, I think a recce Heinkel, flying low over the town in broad daylight with no AA fire or fighters chasing it.

Teekay…..I guess we were at the same school – thirty years apart!

Latest contribution on the original site suggests the prop is at Belton House! Anything further?

Wasn’t it BMARC that manufactured Aden cannons as used in the Hunter etc?

The BMARC Wiki entry provides a bit of information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMARC – the ambiguous name didn’t seem to stop the air raids!

Don’t know about BMARC, but I remember at the time of the raids we were told the main target was Ruston & Hornsby Ltd, who made diesel engines in Grantham.

The BMARC Wiki entry provides a bit of information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMARC – the ambiguous name didn’t seem to stop the air raids!

http://www.granthammatters.co.uk/junkers-prop-was-sold-as-junk-552/
……from a Junkers 88 shot down while attacking the British Manufacturing and Research Company facility in Grantham on 27 January 1941……

That brings back memories! I was at boarding school in Grantham when that was shot down. The remains of the aircraft were displayed on a “Queen Mary” trailer in town afterwards and with several other boys I scrambled aboard to see what we could scrounge. I managed to hack off a small piece of flooring (sort of non-skid patterned rubbery stuff) and some jelly-like like material that I believe was from inside a fuel tank. I remember the smell to this day, which for years afterwards I associated with Germans, but unfortunately the items got lost sometime in the last 75 years of moving around. All probably one of the wartime experiences that led me to joining the RAF and becoming a fighter pilot.

http://www.granthammatters.co.uk/junkers-prop-was-sold-as-junk-552/

……..always struck me as an early attempt at PC to call the company a ‘Manufacturing and Research’, company!

Yes, it seems a bit odd, but to be fair, such companies might produce all sorts of precision equipment.

The prop spinner mention by “Creaking Door” came off of a Dornier 17 which crashed onto Victoria station in London.

‘But, light of my life, I really NEED that broken spade/wheel/drill, etc! ‘
Oh yes! Been there!?

Yes, or woman’s…..so my wife keeps telling me, anyway!

My thoughts entirely, but as we all know, one man’s relic is another man’s scrap!

So presumably ‘sold for scrap’ means (hopefully) that it was sold for a scrap price to somebody who appreciated its true value, rather than it actually being sold for scrap? In 1980 that should have been the case, surely?

There is (was) a spinner that looked a lot like that at the RAF Museum Hendon.