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Car, 4 x 2, Vanguard Series 1

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 72/V/1645

Standard large commercial saloon car restored to represent an RAF vehicle. Pronounced rear body curve with integral boot and chrome wheel discs and front and rear bumpers and leather bench seats in the saloon front and rear.

Ladder, Cockpit

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X003-2345

Six-rung alloy cockpit access ladder for HS Buccaneer twin jet folding wing bomber aircraft. Ladder painted dark green overall; one leg longer than the other at the base to act as a grip. Retractable triangular frame at rear to support ladder against side of fuselage nose.

Projector Searchlight 90CM Mark VI

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 79/O/554

Large diameter searchlight mounted on pivoting, rotating mount, itself mounted on small trailer chassis with four small tracked wheel units, one per corner, and tubular framed towing arm and long horizontally mounted operating arm. Painted dark green overall. See historical notes.

RAF, Course-Setting, Mk. IX A*

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 79/I/2291

Large matt black painted structure containing a compass bowl and various complex adjustments, inc, directional calculator at the rear, wind gauge bar, auxiliary drift bar and terminal velocity gauge. Fitted inside a purpose built storage case with 12 spare scales for various bomb capacities.

Medals of Corporal Ernest Gladstone Reeves

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X001-2418

Circular, silver with scrolled bar suspender. Obverse - Monarch's profile, left side with his/her title round rim. Reverse - A crowned eagle. Round rim FOR LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT Ribbon - dark blue and maroon with white edges. The edge impressed 533018 F. SGT.E.G. REEVES. R.A.F. ERII.

Mk XIV Bombsight, Sighting Head and Control Panel

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 66/I/58

Black crackle painted cylinder shaped gyro unit bolted in an anti-vibration frame and fitted with an optical sighting head. All mounted onto a large base fitted with electrical lead with socket and adjustable (airframe) bracket. Complete with switch box.

Operations Room Projector

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 1998/0189/I

Metal projecting tube with slot for slide towards rear. Detachable bulb mount, without bulb, on one side with length of electrical cable still attached. Shaped wooden handle at rear. Circular cast iron base with four screw holes. Projector movable through vertical and horizontal planes through use of wing nut attachment on top of base.

Wall Mural of No 199 Squadron Stirling LJ531

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, X002-3414

Rectangular section of brick wall painted white with accurate mural of Short Stirling in flight. Glass fronted, in wooden frame. The aircraft is shown from a three-quarters ventral viewpoint. The undersides are in night black camouflage and it bears the fuselage squadron code EX-N.

Flying Gauntlet, RAF, 1943 Pattern

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 69/U/446

Plain brown leather soft gauntlet with no fasteners at all. Made in 1943 in large sizes for use by Air Gunners particularly when wearing electrically heated gloves. Produced in the same style in the following year and known by that Pattern date, but in smaller sizes for wear with silks and chamois gloves but not heated ones.

Operation Manna Plaque

Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Five, 80/C/1200

Rectangular alloy plaque inscribed 'Presented by Dr. W. Scholten, Minister of Defence of the Netherlands.To Commemorate the aid given by the Royal Air Force between 29 April and 8 May 1945, when 3156 Lancaster sorties and 145 Mosquito sorties dropped 6,684 tons of food to the starving population of the still occupied part of the Netherlands, May 1980.'