Thanks Pete, interested to see what comes out!

Thanks GYD. This is about as good as it gets round here. Picked up off the surface a couple of miles from your old stamping ground. With the weather set fine for the weekend, might have another look there. P51 by the way.

Hello Rob, not much help but the dimming knob is a warning light, from the panel and probably other positions. The shiny black piece is probably cooling shroud from around the cylinders in the photo. Everything else a mystery!

I’m pretty sure this is a Beaufort yoke. All the images I can google, contemporary and of restored examples show a pneumatic gun button on the left. Actual books back this up. It’s been restored at some point with new steel work inside and is supposed to have come from a dump in Oz.
I think you have a Beaufighter column MicLittle. Is there a slot at the back of your button hole for brass pipes?
The brass button was swapped for separately. Despite the splendid detail of your publication, AM, how does one open it up to install it? It suffered a bit of a bump and is currently undergoing WD40 and penetrating oil immersions to loosen it before gentle ‘mechanical’ means.

Big lumps of Spitfire? Griffons a bit late for me: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121173039894?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

It was a good day out last time, stalls and museum both. Weather is supposed to be terrible on Sunday so an ideal excuse for a lie in!

No idea on location but it looks like 110 rear canopy. Still Messerschmitt!

Here’s the message and response: “Hello there, your armour is from a Hurricane, not a Spitfire.”
“NO it is not it is from a spitfire 100% no questions at all thank very much”
I stand corrected.