snowen250

Not a lot to see, but useful for rear end details

Following #8, this is a picture from a Hailfax, believed turret handle.

L to R
Jocelyn Millard, Ken Wilkinson, Bill Green, Tony Pickering, Billy Drake. Bob Innes seated.

For clarification, I had no particular expectations. I was asked the question myself by a friend who somewhere about his house (temporarily uncertain of its position) has a dataplate from a Hurricane dig a good few years ago.Moggy

Any chance your friend might divulge information contained on the data plate ?
See PM

Air Ministry

Avro Anson.

What numbers would make it Hurricane? An almost identical wheel was recently donated to Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum as ‘Spitfire’ but might be Hurricane. The only physical difference (in the hub) I can see between the it and the one posted is the small groove between two of the bolts on the second and last photos of the ‘posted’ example, which are not on the museum example.
Numbers on the museum one are hard to see through the layers of paint, but some are:
On hub:
DRG No ?H05000 /
SERIAL No. K/101538
On tyre:
4.00 – 3 1/2 Electrically conducting

Would welcome your thoughts please

Oil cooler flap

Brian,

If you need an additional check, attached is a picture of a flap from one of the oil coolers from Halifax RG475 similarly bent. See your earlier posting #10 and my #12. Max dimensions are 13.5″ width (around the curve) and 6.2″ length fore & aft. The remains of the cowling are also squashed; they are not to hand at present and so I’m not able to check for half/full circle intake shape. Interestingly the two attachment points on this one are badly rusted steel but yours, from the pictures, look aluminium.

Geoff

Looks like Hercules Halifax oil cooler intake.
The part number on the inner controlling flap on an English Electric built MkVIII Halifax is A61210HA12 G99730
Very close to the number on one of your photos (far right) which I assume is the actuating arm attachment point to that flap.
Post #10 shows the flap.