The floor was made of a material called Plymax.

“Plymax is a building material, used in airplanes. It consists of a thin sheet of duralumin bonded to a thicker sheet of plywood.”

I think the ply was the upper surface, so perhaps it had some form of lino type covering to protect it further? Or is the lino effect just the natural finished appearance of the Plymax?

The “A” has nothing to do with Avro, but I agree that a P8 compass is more likely to have been installed in an Anson than a Lancaster.

Lancs used the P4 which is of larger diameter, replaced by the P10 in due course.

Regards

682al

There was a good scrappy in Sprotborough until about twenty years ago. Lots and lots of wartime aircraft stuff lying around….

Hi Cees,

Some while ago, you were asking about who made throttle quadrants, iirc?

I spotted an entry in a prewar listing of UK aeronautical engineers for a company called R Tampier. They manufactured the “bloc tube” throttle quadrants, of which the Hampden and Halifax are examples.

I think Bloctube still exists as an engineering firm. A quick google may well enable you to contact them for possible help with drawings, etc?

Regards!

Al

(nice rudder pedals by the way!)

But the fact is noone was able to build on what he had done

Chuck Berry certainly took T-bone Walker’s style into another genre.

Ahhh, Chuck Berry, long live the King of rock’n’roll….

Now THERE’S a legend, if ever there was.

Under rated guitarist? Over rated lyricist? Anyone….?

Other than the undercarriage collapsing, I woudn’t have thought it is likely to fall apart?

Before Clapton was just clangy, clunky and twangy sounding guitare riffs.

Err, ever heard of T-bone Walker?