If you find yourself on Kyushu you could aim for the Tachiari Peace Memorial Museum in Fukuoka. Not a huge amount there but they do have the one and only Ki-27 (Nate) which would be worth seeing.

Anne (Who is not jealous…no sir…not when she has always wanted to go on an aviation tour of Japan)

I thought the original wheels were pressed steel with holes in.

Press steel…yes, holes in…no.

The ones with holes in are the post war Mk.V.

The picture of the one at Newark is spot on although the colour looks a bit off. There is a good example of without a generator in the BoB Hall at Hendon and I think there’s one at Duxford with a generator fitted.

Here’s a variation on a the theme at Cosford.

John…Isn’t it nice to know your not the only person who takes pictures of Trolley Accs!

Anne

I’ll see what I can do tomorrow about the photo.

I’m still not convinced about your wheels. All the photos and drawings I’ve seen show the large pressed steel type with pneumatic tyres or solid wheels. That’s not to say that your example is wrong…just not the norm. Could be your wheels were replaced post war to a more readily available or cheaper size. I also note that the towing eye appears to be a rather agriculturally welded afterthought which was not unknown in service.

Anne

Complete conjecture time.

Could it just be a Spitfire LF.Vb which has had a Vokes filter fitted as a way of dealing with the dust problems they were encountering in Normandy at the time? Individual exhaust stacks were fitted to Mk.Vs as well as mass balanced elevators.

Hard to tell without the photo…probably hard to tell with the photo.

Anne

If it makes you feel better Cees, I didn’t get credited either after supplying quite a bit of info at the start of the process.

Never mind the RPs, that’s a Type E Bomb Trolley they are sitting on!  Just the thing if you are planning to move a 8,000 lb or 12,000 lb High Capacity of bomb around. 

It’s a 12-14 Volt, 500 Watt, Generator Mk.IIIA.  A fairly universal bit of kit of the 1920s usually associated with radio installations.

I don’t have a listing for the Bulldog so I couldn’t comment on them but I’ve found the Generator listed for the Bristol F2b Mk.III and the Siskin IIIA.

Not found on everything though as the Grebe and Gamecock used a different generator.

Sure enough, the windmill does look more than a little suspect.

I don’t think the RAF Museum has a Cirrus II.  What they do have is a Cirrus Minor II on loan to them which appears under the wrong name on their website and on the caption at Cosford.  The latter also compounds the error by showing a picture of a DH-60.  All a bit odd when the main text correctly identifies the engine as a Cirrus Minor.