Sorry for being a pedant cdp206, but the throttle box in your photos is not from a Wellington.

It looks post war to me.

While doing a Wellington bits census….

The nigh inevitable contribution from me…

There’s a Wellington throttle box, several control column tops and wheels, and sundry Wellington front turret spares out in the garage. Oh, and a DF loop fairing, too. And a leather seat cover with the aircraft’s serial number stencilled on it.

I recall stories that a section of Wellington fuselage was in use as a shed, somewhere in the Crewe/Nantwich area. Long time ago, though.

And even longer ago, as a youngster, I used to cycle to my local disused aerodrome at Cranage/Byley. Part of the attraction was the factory where Wellingtons were assembled, later a Ministry of Supply store but at that time apparently locked up and forgotten. I was always puzzled by the oval shaped structures which lay against one wall of the shed. I could never figure out what they were until many years later when I saw a sectioned view of a Wellington fuselage. They were either actual fuselage formers or possibly the jigs used to manufacture them. They’d gone by the late ’60s.

Apologies, Roy, we cannot be with you this year due to sundry domestic commitments/problems.

Hopefully next year, though.

Good luck!

Funnily enough, I was chatting to a bloke at the War and Peace Show last week who reckoned a “friend of his” had seen such a beast in Russia only recently….

I said “Don’t you mean a Lancaster?”, and he was adamant that it is a Stirling.

Frankly, I was too hot (and hung over) to pursue it much further!

Barracuda (or Welkin) tail wheel looks about right.

A 5C/529 plug is often used in association with electrically heated flying clothing.

Is this any help?

Many thanks, Cees, it all helps!

The chances are that it will date back to WWII as the Magister was in service from 1937 until the war’s end (and a bit beyond perhaps).

The tyre also fits a Percival Proctor tail wheel.