Thanks fella’s,
Pretty sure it wasn’t Merlin, but some smaller Carb intake unit. Dead right about the Lancaster Brake pad guys, ED- 908 really smacked into a descending hill from 16000 ft after the port wing came off minutes after a flak hit. No chance of aircrew getting out either, a very bad affair. Mike (Anon), it seems Lancasters did have an APU fitted, but after WW-2, so current thinking on BobKats thread is this carb flange assy. came from one of vehicles around at the time.

Bill T.

Hi Fleet,
Would you mind taking some pics of your Carb and post them back here. I need to look at one of these things, as it might be that an item found in wreckage of Lancaster ED-908 (WW2 1944 ) in France might be part of this type of carb. A few of us are trying to help BobKat identify bits from the crash and your help would be very much appreciated. I think ED-908 was a Mk 3 Lancaster and we’ve never heard of this type of carb used on Lancs.

Many thanks,

Bill T.

PM Forumite:- ANON He’s a good start.

Bill T.

Very interesting account Mr. Creosote, thanks for sharing this. Funny Bomb gone mentions Hemswell too, cos. this still strikes a big chord with me. A long time ago way back in 1956, As a young ATC Cadet in 493 Sqdn. (Kings Heath,Birmingham ) I went to annual weeks camp with my Sqdn. to RAF Hemswell. We rolled up there in a Bedford truck form the local railway station and whilst waiting outside the main Guardroom for processing and passes, we watched the Flag lowering Ceremony taking place (6 pm) When the NCO blows the whistle, all and sundry have to stop and stand to attention till whistle blows again. Everyone else did, except this National Service LAC, walking along. The Flag Lowering Officer screamed at him to:- “Come Here Airman” and then verbally ripped his head off in full view of us and all other Service personnel. This LAC went very red in face and slunk off. Woo !! That was my intro to RAF and that served me well down the later years, (” I learnt about RAF from that one ” ) So after this we studied the “Tall Boy” Bomb that was stood outside SHQ till we moved off to accommodation. It was a very interesting week for me as I questioned many National Service chaps about the RAF, because my time for National Service was fast approaching and it was from this Annual camp at Hemswell, that I decided, the RAF was for me.

But what was really, really good was that the very last Sqdn. of Lincolns were still operating from Hemswell and we were allowed all over and inside them. Absolute magic !!! And because the Sqdn, (Cannot remember the Number) were finishing with Lincolns that year, (And move on to Canberra’s I believe ) We had Lincolns by day and Lincolns by evening, because out on the perimeter track were parked several Lincolns awaiting scrapping and of course, this was a magnet to us. Some kind soul had even left the long entrance ladders around there, so we “Filled our Boots” (So to speak ) with Lincolns. What a great time, nothing could better that !!! Could it ?
Think it was on one of our last days there that the CO gave permission for all us ATC Cadets to have a ride in one of these Lincolns, Wow !!! I was there like a shot on the day , but got shoved down the back of queue and the ground crewman after all others went onboard, stopped me and said: “Sorry M8, she’s full up now”. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !! I knew that history was happening here and really made a stink about getting on board, but no chance. So hopping up and down with rage, I watched the Lincoln taxi out and take off.

So eventually, she came back and landed, taxied in and shut down and out poured this mob of ATC Cadets who made straight for me, laughing and all had what looked like full sick bags, so knowing what I was about to receive., I legged it and later found out they weren’t sick at all, but had inflated the sick bags to pile on my agony. B************s!!!!! I was well P********d off I can tell you and even now it gets me a bit. lol !!

But !! That’s life, however,———- I had 2 really good postings during my RAF time that well made up for that disappointment, so swings and roundabouts, lifes rich tapestry and all that. :applause: But that event has stuck with me ever since. So that close to flying in a Lincoln, but at least I had a great week at Hemswell. So still many happy memories. Thanks for reminding me guys.

Bill T.

Absolutely true and so well put. Nowadays ,these type of men are considered a threat in some Western Democratic Countries as the new type of creeping Nazism/Fascism/Communism are put into place in increments. NO !!!!
Try looking at alternative media, instead of mainstream. Otherwise Soldiers died and continue to do so for nothing if we don’t wake up to what is evolving worldwide.

Nuff Said !!!!

Bill T.

Nice shots Alan,
Thanks for taking them. That shows the bolt heads and assy up very clearly as well as the brake drum holding in bolts and that holed Wheel Cooling part of the main structure. You can imagine what sort of loads would be applied to this Lancaster type of wheel in Service use apart from the hammering on the wheel bearings on every landing or “Bounce” lol !!! The twisting and compression loads taken by that structure would be enormous. I know that the wheel bearings on Aircraft always have (Or used too ) be a slide on fit on the Main Axle so that the bearing inner sleeve rotated at every thump it got,so saving the tracks from destruction,earlier than need be.

Bill T.

Ha ha !!!
Brilliantly amazing conception for 1944 and well built. Good bit of film work too. Wonder what ever happened to it. I thought the location was somewhere in UK, but as they are driving on the right , USA/ Europe somewhere ? Nice archive find from Jeff.

Bill T.

Hi fella’s,
Nice to see the interest in this event, Pagen will be surprised when he finally see’s these pics—lol !! Can someone wake him up 🙂 Though this B-36 crashed into that hilly mound in heavy winter snow after running out of fuel whilst in the holding pattern for Goose Airfield, 2 aircrew were killed the rest being rescued. Back in 1972 a lot of folks I knew at Goose Bay still knew much about this B-36. The USAF at the time had to re build one of their rescue helicopters very fast (which was on deep maintenance ) to get out to the wreck. Once survivers were rescued they shuttled back and forth with engineers stripping out stuff that was to be kept, then it was just abandoned. Nobody could have been to it before we did because there was no access, so it was quite surreal finding everything laying around like the crash had happened yesterday. Here is the link again to the Goleta Air Musuem:-

http://www.air-and-space.com/b-36%20wrecks.htm#51-5729

They have some more recent pics. taken. Some C/pit Hey !! That really would be worth saving !!! Back in 1972 I was amazed at the amount of crashed Aircraft around Goose, we had overflown the Catalina that was eventually rescued and knew about the B-17 that was in a lake,(But out of our reach ) that being rescued eventually in an epic rescue. Even on the day I was leaving Goose Bay, got word that someone had just trawled the back end of a Hurricane up from Torrington Basin. (This is where the Goose Floatplanes operate from in Summer.) So dumping my bags at the departure point , I was whizzed down there and sure enough, there it was, a rusty complete Hurricane back end. But I had to race back to get my plane out and never heard about that back end again. I wanted to stay on at Goose Bay mainly because of all these interesting Aircraft wrecks that were out there, but having been allowed a 6 months extension of stay(Making my time there 18 months,——– it was a one year tour normally.) The RAF insisted I left.—lol !! I spent my dis-embarkation and a lump of annual leave there also, so that was finally good-bye Goose Bay. (And straight off the plane at Lyneham and train up to RAF Valley –owwwch !!!, but that’s another world. )

Bill T.