Anyone know what happened to the wings?

Oooh Whitley… how interesting. I will have to come along for sure 😉

The argument is CD that all the scrapyards were full to bursting. It also expect that scrap prices were at fairly low too.

What I can never understand about the things ‘chucked down mine-shafts’ is why wasn’t the stuff just scrapped in the usual way? Scrap metal usually has a value and the stuff used in trucks and (especially) aero-engines is usually of the highest quality so why not, if the stuff is on the back of a truck anyway, just drive it to the local scrapyard?

I also understand that it is very hard to argue with ‘first hand’ accounts of these things happening! 😉

I’ll give you a good price for it, but also do think of Hendon – I don’t know if they need one or not

It’s a Dowty product – a ‘thumb latch control lock’. The drawing I have (from 1940) has the latch and the lever for the u/c on the other side – I wonder if yours was mounted on the pilots R hand side? As for the aircraft, I don’t know – looks a bit different to the Hurricane II ones I have seen, so I would say an early war contemporary of the Hurricane. It’s not from a Defiant, Master or Spitfire either. Fairey Battle anyone?

Can I make a request for some more images of the Leaves Green Dornier please?