Yes it was sold on eBay as a Concorde yoke and you obviously wish to clarify if it is, Correct?
Best place to start is to look at the pre production mock-ups. A number of full size Concorde mock-ups made of wood etc were built prior to production. These featured in exhibitions and also assisted the technicans in working out the ergonomics of the interiors and cockpits. Each mock-up cockpit was fitted with control columns. Both the French and British built a number of mock-ups, and from the cockpit photos of the mock-ups which I have studied all the yokes appear to be different to each other. I suppose the yokes were developed and constantly evolved from the learning of the mock-ups, photos of the interior mock-ups including cockpits can be found on the internet with a bit of patience when searching on Google.
Once production started the yoke design pretty much settled. I think there may have been 2 different types of yokes post production, the main production yoke may have differed slightly from the flown test aircraft.
Anyhow long and short is I cannot confirm but there could be a chance it’s from one of the mock-up aircraft.
The Bristol Britannia part number shouldn’t phase you as I have a Britannia yoke and it’s noting like this one.. Both aircraft Being built in the same place may be why they have the same or similar number.
If the yoke is part of the pre production batch then it’s an important artefact of the Concorde development programme.
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