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All Ranks, Ptn 1940
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 82/U/1372
Single-breasted, waist-length jacket with buttons concealed in fly to neck, stand and fall collar fastening with hooks, shoulder straps, buttoned cuffs. Flapped pleated breast pockets with concealed button. Waistband with belt extension to a metal buckle. Buttonholes inside waistband to engage with buttons on waistband of trousers.
RAF, Mk. I (Mae West)
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1989/0193/S
Yellow cotton waistcoat fastening with three buttons and with tie tapes across the breast and at waist level. The sections over the chest and behind the neck formed as a container for a rubberised fabric, inflatable bladder with a snap-neck gas cylinder in the right lower side and an oral inflation tube in the left breast. The snap-neck lever contained in a housing and the tube passing up round the neck in a fabric sleeve. Zip under neck pocket for access to inner compartments. Two webbing pockets at right side for electric torch and battery holder. Flourescine sea marker pad in a ripping panel on left lower side. Two pairs of webbing tapes front and back to tie between legs. Pair of webbing loop handles on chest for pulling helpless wearer out of water. Small patch pocket on left breast, closing with a press-stud for heliograph mirror. Toggle and cord let into lower left hem for securing to dighy when in the water. Fitted with set of three kapok flotation pads.
Whistle, RAF, Metal, Ptn 1941
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1996/0034/S
Chromium plated round whistle with mouth piece and split ring for fastening to life-jacket.
PAF Officers' Cap Badge
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X002-9854
Very small silver brooch in the form of a Polish Air Force Officer's cap badge. Pin fixing at rear missing.
Caterpillar Club
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, X002-8330
Small gold caterpillar with garnet eyes. Fastening pin at rear. Reverse engraved SGT. R. HENDERSON. With box of issue.
Car, Light Reconnaissance, 4 x 4, Mk. IIIA
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, London, Hangar One, 1995/0718/V
Fully restored and comprehensively fitted out with armament and ancillary equipment both inside and out. Four wheel drive lightly armoured car with manually operated turret. Based on Humber 4 x 4 8 cwt chassis.
Braces, Concealed Map
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 1997/0047/S
Look like standard men'striuse braces, but secretly contain one half of a map in each of the hollow straps, of the Aegean on one side and Italy to Turkey on the reverse.
Letter to Miss Sheila Tremaine as a child from Cpl Wladyslaw Ciesielski, a Polish airman serving with her father at RAF Cranwell, 30 January 1944
Archives, London, Hangar One, X002-9395
Manuscript letter on headed paper showing the RAF and Polish Air Force badges. Previously folded.
Pulley Block from 'The Pitch and Toss'
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar One, 72/C/1353
Wooden block shaped to take rope top and bottom with wheel (wooden) fitted with dowel in centre. Small diamond metal shapes pinned either side with various individuals signatures in ink pen. Mounted to base with engraved brass plate (see history)
Short Sunderland MR5
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, London, Hangar One, 71/A/1408
High winged four-engined all metal monoplane flying boat.