Is there anyone here on the Forum who could point him in the right direction for assistance with the dismantling and move?

Err, we’re surely not talking about The Snipe pub, Dukinfield which is about half a mile down the road from where I’m reading this thread? Oh ****, no!

Ahem…and restoring my composure…as a former employee of the local authority, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, I cannot see them exactly welcoming the idea of a derelict Vulcan airframe “parked” outside his pub….and I’m struggling to visualize exactly where there is room for it, anyway.

Oh well, let’s not worry about it, because, frankly, it ain’t going to happen. Another chapter to add to this sorry saga and one which I truly wish did not involve my home town!

…And before someone connected to IWM Duxford comes on the Board to publically chastise me, I’ve just looked at my photos again and the Oil Temperature Gauge is a correct Mk. IA, reading 0 – 100 degrees.

I was squinting and saw the Radiator Temperature Gauge, which is the one reading 0 – 140 degrees.

My apologies!

Hi folks,

A 5C/1008 u/c indicator suggests a retractable tailwheel.

That should narrow it down considerably if it was a fighter or fighter-bomber.

Assuming these items were found somewhere in Western Europe (?), my guess would centre around a Typhoon or Tempest, given that most of the British alternatives had either fixed tailwheels or, in the case of the later Spitfire/Seafire variants with retractable tail wheels, they continued to use those “Oh-so-scarce-and-extremely-expensive-if-you-wish-to-buy-one” squarish chassis indicators instead of the 5C/1008 type. Herbert will know all about those!

But really, I’d like to know more about the location and date of the crash, etc, before being confident about it all. And I don’t recognise that last item, so it’s not providing any clues.

Regards!

It’s wonderful to see so many well looked after Ansons, especially the overseas ones which are being brought back to their wartime appearance – I wish we had a few more early examples in this country.

I looked over VM325 at Coventry when researching for our restoration of another former Halfpenny Green resident, VP519 (or what was left of her, i.e. from the front spar forwards). It must have broken your dads heart to see her decay so badly.

VM325 appeared to have suffered as badly as VP519 – and it took me an ‘im 12 years to get VP519 into this condition…

Thanks for posting the pics, guys,

I take it the ones advertised on Graham A’s site are too expensive?

Hi Cees,

Are you able to post a photo of a Halifax trim wheel?

We collected a lot of miscellaneous aircraft components from our wonderful Manchester scrapyard which had contained parts of at least one Halifax and a Hastings/Hermes or two.

You never know.

Your new Sabre photos look pretty convincing. And I’ve just realised that the “Meteor” nose I thought I saw at the right hand edge of the photo is in fact a De H product…so much for my jet era recognition skills!