Always thought the u/c indicator was a red herring. Unusual to have this important indicator on a panel with lesser important matters such as stewardess call button etc. A search on ebay under item 141036251297 gives an idea of an Avro Tudor cockpit panel but your particular panel is likely to be out of photo shot probably elsewhere such as the engineers panel. Don’t forget that the Hermes and Ambassadors were about also, especially with tricycle undercarriages. From what I have seen of these cockpits your panels would not go a miss in these aircraft. There were some good photos of the Duxford Hermes cockpit layout published on this forum some years back. A search may dig these out of the archives if you are lucky.

4 parts of gun button

Hope this helps somewhat Ian, for me it was a case of twisting it apart, I may have to manipulate the pipes some what in order to fit them around the yoke. I was wondering if heating the pipes with a gas torch may do the trick?

I don’t know the seller but no doubt he is a fellow enthusiast and all will be okay.
On the simplistic face of it when buying anything in the internet from an unknown source (in this case unknown to Pat1968) then it is only right and sensible to be cautious especially when a high amount of money is involved. Hands up who is happy buying a car at face value without giving it a once over first?

The Tristar which was open for inspection was ex Pan AM. Interesting the Tristar pilot was ex BA! Must have been part of the package deal!
Talking about the price of the aircraft, the VC10 crew were telling me the price of the VC10 yokes and their respective centre caps are worth large sums of money probably more than the aircraft itself! Looks like these may have been already auctioned off for charity within the squadron. As previously stated a good day out! The VC10 will be sorely missed from our skies, only the BAE146 left as the true remaining British aircraft/airliner at a guess??

I have been fortunate to be allocated a number of places and will be attending with my kids, it looks like a promising event with the aircraft being available for inspection and the pilots available to meet and greet . One of my party members is unable to attend so I have written to the wing commander asking him to give the place to someone on the reserve list (as per his original instructions) So if you are on the reserve list fingers crossed for you!

Great location, friendly and helpful staff, nice to meet the usual faces! There were adequate number of stalls present to make it worthwhile attending but unortunately very little customers. This gave the advantage to the buyer, lots of things still left on the stalls and good bargaining to be had. One Australian seller (new to having stalls at aero jumbles) had two Beaufort yokes for sale and a wirraway grip, these were all at a very reasonable price and believe it or not didn’t sell until he was packing up just after midday. Goes to show what trouble the stall holders had selling things but on the flip side it also demonstrates what one could acquire by making the effort to attend. I felt sorry for the stall holders but hope this does not put them off attending Old Sarum in the future. If like me, they would have enjoyed turning up, rummaging around and catching up with people of a similar interest which is what aero jumbles are all about. To the organisers Thankyou, please give it another crack despite the low turn out.