Hi Mike,

It appears to me to be the same beastie used in the Viscount’s kerosene system. The parts book there calls out the unit you’ve got plus its upper component as a Saunders c0ck model 108FE-02-W2

hth

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Correct Elliot it is Hudson.

It’s the centre one of the 5 elevator hinge brackets.

cheers

I’m not sure how generic it was but certainly the NZ NAC Viscounts (type 807) still had the plumbing in place for the tanks to be fitted.

In the case of ZK-BRF both ends of the lines are blanked off but obviously ready to be connected. In the under wing skins one can see the attachments for the tanks blanked off with rubber plugs.

The lines ran from the wing bays aft of the outer engines into the flap bays where they terminated at the under wing skin (in the fwd of these bays they would have interconnected with other plumbing by way, I assume, by replacement of one piece of plumbing which passes through the fwd bay and which the end of the line to the flap bay terminates nearby).

hth

We have two at Ferrymead out of one of the RNZAF Hastings plus we have quite a stock of parts left over from SAFE Air’s disposal of their stocks from Bristol Freighters (however we sold the bulk of what we had to the Fighter Collection for their Beaufighter project some years back).

There are several Freighters around NZ each with a couple on board as well.

Some from the antipodes (and the past when you see black and white pix!)

AW turrets from Oxfords are proverbialy as common as muck here in NZ, well relatively so. At Ferrymead we have (off top of head and without delving into the store to check ) some 3 complete cupola frames and one half one.

Internals are a different matter and in my experience they seem to have rusted away or been thrown away. Mainly as the most common use I’ve heard the cupolas put to was to grow seasonal vegetables under. So we’ve only got 50-60% of a set of seat and related structure.

We also have 2 Sunderland nose turrets, well the cupola and seat as the RNZAF stripped the weaponry out and used them as observer stations.

In the RNZAF Museum and it’s store they have several Sunderland cupolas as per ours but they do have one complete nose turret, and likewise they have several AW’s from Oxfords.

I also saw one possibly two (nose and tail?) units ex an RNZAF Sunderland over in Aussie a few years back. I think it was at Bankstown perhaps James can shed light on that.

Two other B&P Type C here in NZ

Firstly our one at Ferrymead for Hudson NZ2035 and then Bill Reid’s one received along with his Hudson from John Smith.

I’d also draw your attention to the census on Mark Ansell’s site http://www.boultonpaul.com under the Preservation area.

cheers

99.99% sureness it’s from the Boulton-Paul Type C turret as per Hudsons or early Halifax.