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By: 18th June 2015 at 04:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Any numbers, or maybe dates on the switches? might narrow down an era.
By: 18th June 2015 at 07:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The dimmer switch and all others are 50s so post war type.
By: 18th June 2015 at 07:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-So post war twin, but doesn't look like Viking, Valetta, Dove, Anson. To my inexpert eye it looks like an overhead panel, is that along the right lines?
By: 18th June 2015 at 08:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Possibly one of the Percival family? The Sea Prince seems to have the same type of dimmer and switches (though being no expert that may apply to a lot of other types!)
By: 18th June 2015 at 08:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Hi and thanks for the comments so far, I have studied this very closely (even with my glasses on!) and I cannot see any stamps or part numbers. That style of dimmer switch went in a number of post war aircraft. I wondered if the radio plates and the fact it has the twin Mag switches might narrow it down a bit to type. The seller did not know the type either so it is a tough one to ID.
By: 18th June 2015 at 11:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Seems to be a poor design with the Dimmer being near the ignition switches!
By: 18th June 2015 at 12:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The holes at the top are for the VHF radios, brackets at the bottom may be for Navigation sets. Having the magneto switches in between points to something smallish (not much room for a better arrangement) and/or something that had items retrofitted (ADF and/or other bits added at a later stage). Somehow I got to thinking about helicopters but the twin engined bit doesn't lend itself to many options there.
By: 18th June 2015 at 21:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-With the shape of it, it looked like a side panel to me, obviously piston twin, also I was thinking Pembroke center overhead as it appears to have mag switches in the photo below, any one with better shots? or access to a Pembroke
By: 18th June 2015 at 22:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Hmm, doesn't look much like this one
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1954/1954 - 0823.html
I was guessing at Bristol freighter but couldn't find a picture to check.
Who would put the radios next to the mag. switches?
By: 19th June 2015 at 01:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Would it be from an ASR boat?
By: 19th June 2015 at 10:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Would it be from an ASR boat?
Not with twin magnetos I would think. What about those funny sofa-shaped cutouts at the top - what fits in there?
By: 19th June 2015 at 20:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-VHF radios. Just below is a switch to choose set 1 or 2.
By: 20th June 2015 at 01:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Post twelve,some of the ASR boats had marinised merlins(lion?)so why would they not have ign switches,equaly safe at sea with twin mags!!
By: 20th June 2015 at 11:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Post twelve,some of the ASR boats had marinised merlins(lion?)so why would they not have ign switches,equaly safe at sea with twin mags!!
I was wrong then.
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By: wingsmuseumUK - 11th June 2015 at 09:40 - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
Hi chaps,
Please can anyone ID this cockpit panel for me, I have been trawling through google images and am well and truely beaten - I give up!
This is not to sell on by the way. I actually got it for the mag switches, would be nice to know what aircraft type the panel is from.
Thanks again
Dan