As for manually feathering the props, chances of that having been done are slim if you ask me. You’d have to drain the oil out of the engines and use a tool to twist the blades.

Didn’t the B26 use Curtis Electric props? I assume these can be feathered without the engines running.

There are certainly parts in the 390th BG Museum at Parham in Suffolk. The dig was before my time of involvement there but I bet Ian McLachlan can give you all you need.

I can’t see why America would have wanted to license build our designs. The Merlin aside, they didn’t license build anything else, and indeed their own designs were far more suited to mass production.

They did adopt the 6 pr anti tank gun and produce it as the 57mm M1. Substantially the same, it differed in many ways. They certainly had no interest in producing British tanks, despite much effort spent in trying to persuade them.

Probably a No4 Mk1, that’s what we have in our Auster IV (or will have when we eventually finish it!).

Sold now but good info for a further search.

http://www.dandbmilitaria.com/deactivated-number-4-mkI-flare-pistol-SN-380.html

A-26 was redesignated B-26 once the original B-26 Marauder was out of service.

Less kit bag, more body bag…….

No worries Anthony, thanks anyway.

Regards,

Adrian