And sometimes a wreck’s type can be identified by relatively small clues. The Simmonds Mk. III fuel contents guage was used by only a few aircraft, most notably the Stirling.

Fabulous, another one back from the dead!

If you’d like to send me a private message, I should be able to help.

Regards,

682al

Hi Skypilot62,

I would bet that the AH numbers applied to civilian as well as military, but I don’t know for sure.

Re the larger tail wheel, I get the impression it’s from a 1940’s/50’s type. Can I see a treaded tyre, rather than a smooth one?

18 inches suggests something pretty chunky, but not four-engined. Hmmm, wild guess, but how about something like Viking/Valetta?

Regards,

Al

Hi HP57,

I’ll kick this one off as the board is pretty quiet today.

I’ve not heard of a Halifax throttle box being available for sale or trade in all the years of my cockpit collecting. I cannot recall the ads in Flypast, either, although I must admit it’s been some years since I last read the mag.

The Cotswold Aircraft Restoration Group had a Halifax restoration project that originated in a Scottish scrapyard. This was something like the port half of a cockpit wall, with attached floor, control column and, I think, a quadrant.
I last saw it about fifteen years ago and I’ve no idea about its current state or whereabouts.

We have some very corroded throttle remnants in our collection – but you know this anyway, as I sent you some photos a while back.

I really cannot offer much more in the way of leads, but maybe this post might spark a memory or two and result in some new info? I know you’ve made this appeal in many forums on the net, so let’s hope your perseverance pays off!

Regards!

682al

p.s. We recently picked up an Air Mileage Unit, dated 1943, from a Halifax in the NP range (still got it’s stores tag attached). Interested in a swap or something?

The tyre size (4.95 – 3 1/2) of the tail wheel was common to quite a few types, Anson, Swordfish, Fulmar etc. Are there any “AH…” ref. numbers from the wheel itself?

The 11.25 – 12 tyre size is correct for a Barracuda or Firefly. Again, without an “AH…”ref. from the wheel itself, it’s hard to say which one.

Nope….

Sorry, but I’m sticking with ND627. When you take the reasonably reliable characters into account (?D?27), and then compare them with Lancaster serial ranges, and individual aircraft histories, there really aren’t any other viable options.

Harry Holmes lists ND627 as with 12 Sqn. in Feb. ’44, so there’s another corroborating piece of info.

And Peter had already come to this conclusion, too, which I hadn’t spotted when I sent my first reply!

From the DE HAVILLAND GAZETTE, April, 1946, published by de Havilland Enterprise….

Someone with more copies of the Gazette than I, might care to waste a few hours checking to see if this spelling was consistent throughout, or maybe it was just down to the individual writer’s preference?