I think we have a winner! Wow – thanks for that Wyvernfan. A Python had never occurred to me, but it is a clear match both in the combustion chamber and the flame tube. Thanks again!

Just as an aside, your Goblin flame tube looks remarkably like the one in your Proteus cutaway.

I know what you mean. I do think our one is Goblin and the photo below of a Goblin engine shows the inside and outside of flame tubes quite well. This does seem to be a pretty good match to our example.

I hadn’t realised there were different flame tubes in Proteuses. If you are able to find a photo of a Proteus showing the same time of flame tube as in our example, I would be very grateful. It would just be nice to confirm that this is indeed Proteus and not something else.

Thanks for the responses. I think number 4 is Derwent, as it matches the dimensions of another Derwent tube we have. I am unsure about the proteus, if only because the drawing below seems to show a very different type of flame tube. It may well be Proteus, but it would be great if anyone has a really good photo of a cutaway Proteus showing the flame tube just to make sure.

Thanks again for all the information so far which has been tremendously helpful.

Pete,

That’s great, thanks. No suprise that you recognised the Welland flame tube! May I ask can you check the following to make sure that I’ve identified them correctly? I believe they are as follows:

Combustion chamber 1: Avro Canada Orenda
Combustion chamber 2: Rolls-Royce Derwent II
Combustion chamber 3: de Havilland Goblin II flame tube
Combustion chamber 4: Rolls-Royce Derwent V

Thanks again for identifying the other two.

Thanks for this, which confused me. However, the penny has now dropped. The reference I have to flights by 134 in December 1992 are not, in fact, ZA134 as I thought but refer to the callsign rather than the serial. Thus, I’m looking at Rescue 134, a Wessex from B Flight, 22 Sqn at Leuchars.

Thanks nonetheless for your help and sorry for any confusion I’ve caused.

Thanks for all the replies guys – it’s great to get the identity of this tied down, but a shame I’ll never know which wreck it came from.