Okay then balloon fans can anyone supply any info as to what the Royal Navy used this gas-bag for?

Scan of a 1916 vintage press photo, caption reads ‘ A little known craft of the British Navy, our picture shows the balloon ship with an inflated balloon in the stern ready for immediate ascent’

There is a name on the bow of the ship, very hard to read something like MEDSOE / WEDSOE or similar?

Cheers, Chumpy.

PS As for the Google thing, thought I was still p****ed when I turned on the PC first thing this morning!

tis on it’s way..just so long as I got your email address correct!

I would imagine that, ‘when one has one’s own Air Force’, one cannot be a**sed to go to airshows!

An intriguing item indeed, took the liberty of ‘lifting’ the attached image (Mods delete if deemed inappropriate).

Trying to make out the wording on the Auster’s flap? One for the ‘Le tour’ experts amongst us.
Also suprised to read that the teams used spotter planes, did not think the event was so cut-throat back then!

The Putnam British Civil A/c volume lists the following….

G-ANFY NZT OEX OEY OIO OIR OIT OIV OIW OIX PAI PAJ PAK PAL PAM PAO PAP PHZ PJV POZ.

Plus PRB PRC PSU PSV reserved for Jackaroo conversion but not taken up.

Last one looks to be a pipe ‘olive’.

Might be worth somebody who knows their threads and bolts etc to do a little piece on this – I find it utterly bewildering!
So does the three circles emblem actual denote the use of unified threads?

..Yes!

The three circles sometimes on the head of the bolt, more often on one of the ‘flats’ as per the nut shown.

…………and John Junkin? Just a guess. The old grey matter is not what it once was!

t’was John Cleese….sorry this thread is getting a bit silly..my fault!