Might also have been taken at Bovingdon, Herts?

Excellent – thanks for posting these. I assume the complete one on the wall is the Singapore prop – or is it from the FB14? Nice to see the early Vickers logo on the latter anyway – you would of course have had the Airscrew company’s equivalent transfers on the other props before they were cropped.

I believe that he was also a member of the Air Transport Auxiliary too – sadly the number of surviving ATA pilots is ever decreasing.

It used to be in Weybridge, Surrey – on what used to be known as the Weybridge Trading Estate – and the company was The Airscrew Company. Dr H C Watts had joined them as Technical Director by the early 1930s and presumably designed the Watts propeller. Among their many customers was Amy Johnson and I believe the R101 airship team.

The factory closed and was demolished in the late 1980s when the business – now named Airscrew Howden – relocated to nearby Sunbury on Thames, although they had long since ceased making wooden props by then. Luckily I had the chance to look around the site just before closure in 1987 but found little evidence of their former products.

How large are your prop bosses and the Singapore one especially? Any chance of posting some pics?

Bit of a tricky one perhaps……especially as it is a fairly typical WW2 type amd there are no useful clues available. I suggest you try finding a copy of Paul Francis’s book on British Military Control Towers published in the UK about 10 years ago – this should identify the specific design and hopefully provide a list of most known locations where most examples were built. Unfortunately my copy of this book is currently in storage.

If this is the one on the fire dump, then it was still there a few weeks ago…….

Yes- that’s the vehicle – though I can’t recall if the Henstridge survivor still had the trailer section.

No, MUCH bigger and more impressive!