Hello – your blade is from a Fairey Firefly I
Shameful
Now that’s a proper parts manual. The americans really knew how to put these together.
Wow – amazing condition. Looks like the poor old girl got a smack on the snout.
Nice 48 gal fuel gauge Mike. I’m looking for one if anyone has one.
I didn’t buy the gauge – it doesn’t look right to me.
This is the ebay listing:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ww2-spitfire-37-gallon-fuel-gauge-good-condition-/271439448175?nma=true&si=sjBcRllO5b8aY6pwCzEsfR%252FPhtU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
Bruce – I would think the 400MPH ones are your best best. Why not just remove the face, turn it over and get the reverse engraved. They are fluorescent so low risk.
I’ll ask for a pic Ollie but I never heard of that before…
Although i would agree with the general consensus, before we can say with 100% certainty that it is spurious, could you take a photo of the rear of the case. The Americans produced instruments on behalf of the Air Ministry and i have seen seen Anson and Hurricane fuel gauges with the same font /number 3 as shown on your fuel gauge. Canadian Hurricane fuel gauges were generally produce by Liquidometer Corp and are usually marked with this. Could it have been possible that they also manufactured Spitfire fuel gauges?
Thanks Peter. I have a number of these old Smiths fuel gauges and in all of them, and in your picture the font is very different to the gauge I posted. It seems quite difficult to match wartime fonts precisely.
Two of these gauges were sold by the same seller on ebay so far this month. They are clearly advertised as Spitfire gauges which plainly isn’t the case. Looks to me as though they are deliberate fakes. I wonder who bought the other gauge?
For anyone who is interested I now ID’d this as from a TR9F 😉
My thoughts exactly Ian. Anyone else agree? Any pics of the genuine article at all please?
Cart before horse?
The RAFM do already have a Kittyhawk on the books. http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/curtiss-kittyhawk-iv/
It could always be for that…
A weekend “bump” in the hope that something turns up.
Don’t let me down now chaps, some of those yet to come could be a right headache!
Ian_ thanks for the lead on the Mitchell. My googling took me to a similar illustration which obviously isn’t this part but there may well have been other pumps on a B25 so let’s not rule it out just yet.
Hi guys – it looks a lot like a hydraulic hand pump handle to me too. I wouldn’t get too hung up on the part number as these were often bought in as proprietary parts and not made by the company manufacturing the aircraft. It’s not a wartime Lockheed one, or Dowty either and could well be American. Maybe try over of WIX?
It’s a B17 prop, but it’s not possible to tie it to a particular aircraft i’m afraid
Very impressive Ewan
Really nice footage – thanks for posting