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By: - 18th February 2019 at 17:39 Permalink
Awesome artefact...those are worth a small fortune in interior decoration market !
By: - 18th February 2019 at 18:43 Permalink
It's from a 200-hp Beardmore Halford Pullinger (BHP) Puma engine: most likely a DH.9.
By: - 18th February 2019 at 20:03 Permalink
I obviously know nothing about WWI aircraft but was a DH 9 a 4 bladed prop or 2 ?
By: - 18th February 2019 at 20:33 Permalink
Mmm. Fair point. The boss does bear a 200HP BHP stamping. My first thought was DH.4 but IIRC that was a 160hp BHP engine. Ditto FE,2b etc.
Mmmm.
By: - 18th February 2019 at 20:54 Permalink
I think I can see DE H 4 on it.So, maybe it is de-H 4?
Anon.
By: - 18th February 2019 at 21:09 Permalink
Both DH9s at Duxford are 2-blade.
By: - 19th February 2019 at 11:58 Permalink
I would think most Likely an Fe2.
By: - 19th February 2019 at 13:30 Permalink - Edited 19th February 2019 at 13:32
Could only be for an FE2 if it was a Non Standard/Trial engine fit.
The 'BHP' stamped on the Prop could be 'Beardmore-Halford-Pullinger'
The science museum have a 200 H.P. bhp Aero Engine No. 5611, W.D. No. 23285 known as the Puma engine designed by Beardmore-Halford-Pullinger, developed by the Siddeley Deasy Motor Company Ltd., Coventry, built by Armstrong-Siddeley, 1917.So perhaps for an early version of the A.S. Puma
Was an FE2 used for engine trials perhaps ?
By: - 20th February 2019 at 07:36 Permalink - Edited 20th February 2019 at 07:42
From the magnificent Women website
Daughter of TC Pullinger - the Beardmore/Arrol Johnston designer.
https://www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/e...thee-pullinger
PULLINGER, Dorothée Aurélie Marianne m. Edward Marshall Martin, MBE, born Calais, France13 January 1894, died London 11 January 1986.Aero and automobile engineer and entrepreneur. Daughter, eldest of the 12 children of Aurélie Bérénice Sitwell and Thomas Charles Pullinger. Her father was a car designer who worked for several automobile manufacturers: Sunbeam, Humber and, finally, Arrol Johnston's at Paisley. Dorothée attended Loughborough Girls Grammar School, then joined her father, at the Arrol Johnston to train in the drawing office and foundry, and converted German designs from metric to imperial measurements for UK use. [HR][/HR]When Arrol Johnston built a plant at Tongland, Kirkcudbright, making spare parts for aero engines, Dorothée helped design the Beardmore-Halford-Pullinger aero engine, known as the Beardmore. In World War 1, Vickers hired her to work at their massive factory in Barrow-in-Furness, to supervise 7,000female munitions workers. She started an apprenticeship scheme and football team for the women (That's her behind the goalie in the photo). she persuaded Arrol Johnstons to use women at the Tongland factory to build a car she designed for women - The Galloway (10/20 CV , 4 cylinders, capacity 1528 cc.). This was the first ever car designed specifically for women and it is still the only one to go into general production on that basis. It remained in production in a variety of versions until 1925. After her marriage in 1924, Dorothee undertook the sales side of the operation, but annoyed at accusations of stealing a ‘man’s job’, she opened an innovative industrial steam laundry in Croydon, with her husband. In 1940, Nuffield recruited her to organise women recruits to munitions. She managed 13 factories during the Second World War and was the only woman on a post-war government committee formed to recruit women into factories. She moved to Guernsey where she established a new chain of industrial laundries, just in time to service the hotels in the post-war tourism boom. Awarded an MBE, she became a member of the Institute of Personnel Management and was the first woman member of the Institute of Automobile Engineers (1923). There is a plaque to her memory at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was the first woman to be inducted in the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame (2012).
By: - 20th February 2019 at 09:23 Permalink
As Anon (Mike Davey) has already stated, it tells you on the prop! DG 1329 was the standard prop used on the BHP powered DH.4. The slight confusion over the horse power may stem from the prop having been produced for the prototype BHP engines which were rated at 200hp while the production version was a 230hp engine.
Anne
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By: flyingblind - 18th February 2019 at 17:32 - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
I've asked to try and help I.D. this propeller for someone who lives in my village
I'm assuming possibly WWI?
Any ideas as to what aircraft it was used on