Hi Tim

Nice to see you on the forum. Tim very kindly helped us transport a consignment of Whitley parts a few months ago.

My post was only to mention the possibiltuy of the cockpit being saved if plan A fails (which hopefully it won’t!).

If it doesn’t work out, will someone please let me know?!

Thanks
Elliott

Hi Elliott!

Is there now two people interested in purchasing the nose outright? We’ve gone from the shack being on deaths door to there being a queue to save it 😀 Things have moved along very quickly.

That’s funny Alan, I wondered about the Lib too :rolleyes:

If only life were so simple. There are no stamps/reference nos. on mine at all.

The reference to “Top Tier” and “Bottom Tier” puzzles me. Bombs on British aircraft weren’t normally stacked in tiers. Sounds more American to me. Maybe a Brit Liberator?

Hey Tim

If it’s American, your best bet for an ID is to post a pic of it on the WIX forum:
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/index.php

Looks interesting!

Good luck
Elliott

Thanks mark.

All of the bolts holding various covers and outlets onto the tank have a locking wire running through them and the bacolite filler cap has a dipstick attatched to it marking out gallons.

Someone one somewhere must know what it is, and where its from.

I think it’s a hamilton standard/DH type of prop. Those brass teeth look identical to a Japanese prop component (a HS copy) in my possesion a few years ago.

God bless you Steve.

You will not be forgotten, I can promise that.

R.I.P mate the world is a darker place without your light.
Nobody will forget you.

Wow – Those are wonderful pics Steve. I love the old K series (and earlier aircraft) and often wonder if those hills in the former outposts of the empire hold any remains of these aircraft.

Perhaps a moderator would be kind enough to move my additional information on these photos over from the original thread too?

That’s awesome – it’s great when this stuff turns up out of the blue – and best of all, you don’t have to pay extortionate prices for it.

There is a T-34 parked round the corner from Whitley HQ (my house). I think it’s ex-Serbian.

A former client of mine turned up one day with a cardboard box and said ‘here you go you will like this lot’.
It contained various spitfire and tempest instruments including a gunsight with brand new seimens bulbs ( 1940 ), a gun camera and a turret gunsight which I donated to the Halifax project at Elvington. I particularly like the curved spitfire rear view mirror.
Didn’t cost a penny.
If anyone is interested there is a Cheifton tank dumped in a paddock in our village, it’s getting in a state and I worry about it’s condition, lets just say that the owner prefers dresses!