What about the Piston Provost guy.. Alan House or something? He seemed to be in Flypast a lot with his lovely collection in the 80’s or 90’s.

This is the reply i received when researching the same subject;

“The Ulster Aviation Society webmaster passed on your enquiry about Sturgeon part numbers to me.
I’ve come across a couple of photos of Sturgeon parts where the idents are visible and the part numbers in those cases started SA1 and SA2.
This would fit with the Shorts designations of the original Sturgeon and the TT variant – A lot of parts from the standard machine would have been carried over into the TT2 design”.

Manufacturers code;
SB & HR = Shorts Brothers & Harland.

26FJ = Short Sturgeon stores ref.

SA1 & SA2 = Short Sturgeon part codes

PM sent. Thanks once again.

Rob.

Excellent John. Love seeing yours and Martins projects turning up all these original pieces and parts :).

Thanks to those who have contacted me about this, but i am merely ‘in the loop’ as regards information at present. As the news article says it has the potential to be a really exciting proposition, but the guys at Gosport need a little more information before venturing further.

Andy (Tangmere) – I believe Xtangomike has already been in touch with someone involved down there.

oz rb fan – There would appear to be a TF.1 down there, and a TF.2. But yes like you i would love to see an S.4 displayed sometime.

My ‘juices’ have been flowing for quite a while Doug :). Just need to be patient.