Look for the BABA magazine ( British Artist Blacksmith Asssociation) ads or put a request in there,always have interesting kit in there …not necessarily for blacksmithing.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…. WW2 German wing or tail
Maybe in the latter desperate part of the war..the Germans started nailing the aircraft together???
I think Elliot has done really well,difficult thing being a one man outfit and doing all the work yourself.What you can,when you can..flitting about to different bits is understandable..do it myself…he’s got some cracking original stuff and is moving forward.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]242868[/ATTACH] I had a clear ‘plastic ?’ Complete DR aerial years ago..looking at this..a type 3.. The joining seam was horizontal but it was only about two feet long.The loop aerial was made of hardwood with copper/ brass wire…Ken Ward had it off me,the one I have now is only around three feet long though…didn’t realise there were so many types.
The Whitley used the type 3. From memory this is the larger type – it’s 4′ long and built in 3 parts.
Four Feet long???????? That’s huge..doesn’t look as big in your photos..
Just stumbled across this…I used to live just down from here when at college at Camberwell and remember those stretcher railings…and the mounds of. The filled in air raid shelters behind them.Just up from this was the old Grammer school on the corner of the junction with Wilson Road ( across from the church). There were two emergency water supply signs painted (faded) on the wall…don’t know if any of this is still there now the shelter direction were still painted on the church wall down by ‘the Oval’ tube station.
My friend was lodging in a house just down from here at the top of Southampton Way,he showed me a large communal air raid shelter in the back garden..still had rusted remains of beds and gas masks in there…in this was in 1989.
Wow thank you Alan…found a Michael Sloane working on Radar at RAF Neatishead.
Thanks for the info..will get looking..
I Take it the Stirling used the larger one…??
No,these are photos I took myself James.
Stunning work..well done.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]242835[/ATTACH] for sale or swap left to right, BC 230 AN radio transmitter.B29 radar altimeter.back. BC 1150 control box for black widow or mosquito aircraft,bomb Aimers panel ( unknown), casting from tail of P51 Mustang,Bendix inter phone amp RAF ref 110U/36′,repeater compass brow light,Chipmunk map holder,fibreglass 1000lb bomb nose cone,
Wanted:4foot drive cable for F24 camera,large gyro and servo for mk4 auto-pilot,j switch plugs,beam approach receiver…anything Stirling!
The parts are identical James..it has the same wood inside.thanks for that John…got a load more to clean up and ID if you can help.
I supplied some bits to help restore the only surviving FN25 when it was being restored by restorations unlimited…it was put on display for the day and I went up and did a few 35mm shots.It was a bit dark so I don’t know how clear the internal shots are.I will try and locate them over the holiday for you!!
[ATTACH=CONFIG]242777[/ATTACH] 6294364??? With brass bush in casting…crank pivot from under pilots seat???