That’ll be the one!

Great link, thanks Grumpy!

Seeing the aircraft haging from ceiling (ie seeing the underside which is what I would have seen on the beach) it certainly looks like the image in my memory.

What I could really do with is a photo of the undercarriage in place – that’s the only difference I can see ebtween this Queensland exhibit and thr thing we dug up – we definitely had a fixed and very rudimentary undercarriage which consisted of a rubber cylinder, a tubular leg, and a forked bearer. One of the legs is still lurking in my parents garage somewhere – the only thing holding it in place after all those years in the beach was the pressure of the sand around it. as with the photo’s, I really must find it soon!

Interesting stuff chaps, thanks for the replies so far 🙂

Great story Peter, I would imagine one of these targets flying askew would cause some serious drag and handling issues for the tug aircraft!

Ah I see – what are the chances of both having quaysides eh! 😮

good lord, have I become a bus part collector? 😮

It came from a recently acquired consignment of 50/60s aircraft cockpit equipment acquired in a private deal so wrongly assumed it was of aircraft origin. The lack of stamps and numbers did ring bells, but it’s a nice lump of Bakelite so what they heck!

Thanks guys, think you might well be right!