Dan have you seen page 37/38 and 164 of the He177,277,274 book by Griehl and Dressel – a couple of photos and a schematic. The 164 image is quite detailed.
Hugo Junkers started off by making domestic hot water boilers.
There is a nice 1920’s brass boiler cover for sale in Germany that because of the Junkers name was originally (and to some extent still is) being sold as an aircraft part.
Although after the fourth time round on ebay it is now being suggested it might be from a boiler as well.
Interesting parts, Brian.
What makes up the bulk of the sales items at Speyer then? Is it late/modern with a smattering of WW2, or what?
Where is this Speyer place? I’m just too lazy to look it up!
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Mike – Speyer – or Technical MuseumSpeyer is located beside the Rhine – close to Mannheim/Heidelberg. It is south of Frankfurt.
To get there from UK drive from Calais to Metz and then across into Germany pass Ramstein/Kaiserslautern and then down to Speyer.
The Hotel at the museum is good.
http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en
Two events per year – one in the Spring and one in the Autumn.
The stalls are a mix of militaria, books and aircraft parts. The aircraft are a mix of WWi to modern. More ww2 than you would normally expect as several sellers are diggers.
There are a few French sellers too – with different parts eg F84 NOS parts.
Lots of dials, fittings and grips.
Several instrument panel makers and book sellers.
There are a few Eastern Europe sellers who always have a good selection. The Stuka part I got was from Czech. The He111 from the estate of a former airman.
Bushell it is hard to say where these parts are from unless it is taken directly from an aircraft.
I learned something today – the Pilatus P2 was not on my radar -so thank you.
These parts were sold as general Luftwaffe parts.
Given the number of 109 vs P2 – it is more likely to have been a 109 – but we are unlikely ever to know for sure.
Cees and Andy – yes and Yes.
Cees the Tiffie light cover was dug up in the Netherlands- at an airfield where two were buried.
Pic of one in use
http://airwarrior.afkamm.co.uk/Aerodynamics/hawker.jpg
There are some clues to two of the others in these links:
http://wwiimodeller.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Junkers-Ju87-Engine-14.jpg
Also a small Luftwaffe instrument panel (to mount a Luftwaffe clock in).
A hatch from an RAF aircraft recovered from a crash site by a Dutch boy in the war on which he wrote Royal Air Force in pencil.
And a balance weight.
Thank you Bushell.
I maybe should have made it fairer.
The parts are from in no order – Hawker Typhoon, He 111, Me 262 , Ju87 Stuka, F8 Crusader, 88mm and SD2 ; Me109.
Also Mitchell.
Remember for some face to face aviation trading Hangar 2 at Newark Air Musuem is the place to be on Saturday 27th October! 😀
Sorry TO I will be face to face aviation trading at Speyer Technik Musueum on Saturday 27th October….:rolleyes:
Sterling – Russian version of a Stirling.
Not ebay – but a specialist alternative:
Stirling prop blade and hub.
http://www.specialistauctions.com/auctiondetails.php?id=1409150
Russian?
Not anything obvious. It is in southern Germany but that doesn’t mean anything.
Radial engine. The curved side – implies wing or a fancy exhaust. If wing it is a very thin radial.
The filler top looks offset from centre and it is a two part cowl.
Engine Cowl
Okay its Friday Afternoon – Whats this engine cowl from. I dont think its B52!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200718156355?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
A colleague called WarXXX had an A3 with private reg WAR …
It was one of the four Audis of the Apocalypse.
Thanks for your thoughts chaps.
Elliot – I do not have an account on WIX.
the comment on HT stamps being US generic was here:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/astamps.htm
I have been checking and German military records are held at the Bundesarchiv in Freiburg. I doubt my German is up to it.
The name does not appear on this on line list – although I don’t know how definitive it is.
http://www.ww2.dk/lwoffz.html
Richard – thanks for confirming that Schonenberg was not a real division.
It is these thoughts that make me wonder as it is too complicated a construct….
Thanks chaps for all the comments – still no confirmation.
The rank is Oberfeldwebel. I did find a Bernhard Wintermann killed in service in 1942. But all circumstantial.
Versuch thanks – that clock looks unusual – the early ones had the writing cast into the bakelite and that one looks hand painted. The later ones had more heavily cast data plates. Was this from a period in between ? The flowery mark was supposed to be the Junghans logo – I believe.
I have to clean off some silver paint to see the back plate on this one more clearly
This is a useful site when you know the FL number
http://www.cockpitinstrumente.de
The part is shown nicely if you type the number into the search..