like you i would of preferred it to of been Spitfire related lol.

Reminds of a thread i put on a few years ago asking for help on an aircraft relic identity, it turned out to be a 1960s television motherboard argghhh, but its always good to see people asking for help on this forum as you just never no what it may be, (im still learning) but hopefully some of my i.d. help requests also helps others as some very knowledgeable people on this forum.

Here is a photo of the Maxi with t coupling bracket, those are the mounting points by the pinion I can’t quite make out on the first photo.
Ive actually got a Maxi steering rack at work if you like i can take a photo and post an image so you can see if it matches, let me know.
I guess this post should be on a classic car forum lol, but a rare item none the less.

Austin Maxi steering rack if it has a mounting bracket threaded hole near the pinion just above to the side cant quite see, if you can send a clearer photo of that area then i can nail it for you,if not its a Austin 1100 seen a few of these in my past. used to recondition 40 a day of these now thats just blown my age lol.

Have to agree with you farnboroughrob in regards to the aircraft selected, i visited around a month ago and come away very sad and disappointed to think that this new hall has replaced such an iconic former Battle of Britain hall, it took me around 15 minutes to see what i wanted to see and to think this had cost around £25 million (correct me if im wrong) for me it was a complete waste of money that could of been better spent, like it has been said did we really have to destroy the former Battle of Britain hall to commemorate the 100 years of the Raf ?

Also to see the new area that represents the Battle of Britain is for me sad to see,to see such iconic aircraft being crammed into an area that dosnt even allow some of the aircraft to have there wings fitted due to lack of space, (im just hoping that this is a temporary display)

The busiest part of the day that i spent there was the old Battle of Britain footage of the film formerly of the Battle of Britain hall, where people crammed around a small TV (says it all really) unlike some i loved this footage so did many others hearing those Merlins at the end made many a gooseump and left you feeling very proud of this part of our Raf History.

All i can say as far as the Battle of Britain side of the museum is, we must all be grateful for the likes of the Battle of Britain Museum Hawkinge and the likes, as the Raf Museum appears to of sadly lost the summer of 1940 and its importance.