Air Gunners Training Aid (No 9 pg1 Cam)

 Here is the G45 Gun-Camera 'Indicator Footage Type 44'.

Manufactured by Wilkinson Machine Company Ltd.

This is Air Ministry marked

14A/1425

£125

 RAF WWII Fighter G45 Short Lens Camera Gun (No 8 pg1 Cam)

 Here we have a camera gun used in practically every RAF Wartime fighter.

As the gun button was depressed the camera which was mounted in the leading edge adjacent to the guns recorded film as long as the guns were firing. This was later analyzed and used to confirm the Pilots claims of a kill or damage.

This camera is in good original condition and still contains an original film cartridge, I have always wondered what I might find if the film was developed but have no idea how to go about doing so. 

The camera can be mounted upright or on its side and the film can be accessed in either position.

This was most certainly fitted to a late war fighter as it is 24 Volt most fighters used a 12 volt system until later in the War.

 It has a service date of 1954 .

Flare Height Setter (No 7 pg1 Cam)

This is a Mk 1 Height Setter for 8 inch Flares, by S.G.Brown Ltd.

Ref: 5D/2646

This has a stores ticket that shows it was taken from a Fairey Fulmar.

First assigned to No. 806 Naval Air Squadron on HMS Illustrious, operating in the Mediterranean theatre, Italian Flying boat snoopers and bombers immediately started falling in numbers. Its role seemed truly fulfilled as, up against the opponents it was designed to fight, it's pilots scores mounted. According to Osprey's excellent "Royal Navy Aces of WW2", no less than 9 pilots of 806 Sqn. alone reached ace status flying Fulmars! Fulmars were cover for the Swordfish attacking the Italian fleet at Taranto on November 11, 1940, a highly successful operation that, unfortunately, had dire consequences for Illustrious.

At one time, 20 squadrons of the FAA were equipped with the Fulmar. It flew from eight fleet aircraft carriers and five escort carriers. No. 273 Squadron RAF operated them for some months in 1942 from China Bay, Ceylon, seeing action against Japanese forces during the raid on 9 April 1942, though about half the squadron personnel were Navy. Fulmars destroyed 112 enemy aircraft, which made it the leading fighter type, by aircraft shot down, in the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. The Fulmar ended its front line operational career on 8 February 1945, when a Fulmar MK II night-fighter from No. 813 Squadron had a landing accident at the safety barrier on HMS Campania and was written off.

Here we have a Type 9 Gun camera made by Bell and Howell, with a Ernst Leitz lens made in Canada.

It comes complete with its original film cartridge.

Serial no: 5175

and: CL2705

£95

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Magazine Type G.45 (No 5 Pg1 Cam)

Here we have magazine for a camera gun used on all RAF fighters , who knows this could still have some interesting footage on it ?

Ref No: 14A/1393

Ser No: 11465

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Aerial Camera Magazine (No 4 Pg 1 cam)

Here is a film magazine made by L. Adams Ltd London. Used in recon cameras.

Air Ministry marked

14A/730

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£150

£495

This is an operators control for distributor photoflash Mk I .

Ref A/M 5D/1559 Serial no 306

The photoflash was to allow the intelligence officers to establish where the aircrafts bombs made contact with the ground.
During WWII the flash was released on a time delay with the bombs.

 This gadget really has me scratching my head, all the switches, push buttons and switch covers including the push release button are wartime also the reference number 5D is an Air ministry reference for "Aircraft armament electrical stores" However I have never seen one of these, it appears to have a service date of 1962 however this is not unusual as spares from the war were often held for decades.  I have seen plenty of wartime parts with later post war service dates.

I haven't seen one of these in a Lancaster or other heavy bomber and to my knowledge the flares were released automatically with the bombs in fact I have never seen one before. The 5D reference is not particularly high and this unit is a MK I so presumably the first of its kind.

The push buttons , switch covers and switches have a good deal of value but to strip this for parts would be to my mind be a bit of a crime.

The only educated guess I have is that this was used in some sort of recognisance aircraft. The camera selection K 19 and K 24 were both wartime cameras designed and built by Fairchild. The K-19 was a night time camera I'm 95% sure this is a wartime peace but would love to find out what it was fitted to so if you have any information please contact me.

 Here is a  A Williamson F117B RAF Aerial Camera British made camera used by the coastal command  for low-level monitoring of shipping. This camera is in nice original condition please study the enlarged pictures.

£775

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British WW2 RAF F24 Aerial Camera (No  Pg 1 Cam)

The F24 camera is a 1920s British camera used for aerial reconnaissance by British and Allied armed forces into the mid-1950s. This is a Wartime version as it carries the air ministry crown.

The outline design of the F24 camera was carried out by the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, and it was introduced in 1925. Detailed design, and most production, was by Williamson Manufacturing Company Ltd of Willesden Green, London NW.10.

The F24 was designed to be lighter and smaller than the F8 camera of 1919, but the F8 continued to be used in less demanding installations. The main component units of the F24 are a body with roller blind focal plane shutter, gearbox, film magazine, and lens cone.

 Image film format is 5"×5", on 5" wide roll film, with magazine capacity up to 250 exposures (the F8 offered images up to 8"×7.5" on 9" wide film). Shutter speed is preset between 1/100s and 1/1000s.

During the Second World War, the F24 was installed in aircraft types including; Avenger, Blenheim, Catalina, Corsair, Halifax, Hellcat, Hudson, Hurricane, Lancaster, Liberator, Lysander, Maryland, Mitchell, Mosquito, Mustang, Spitfire, Stinson, Stirling, Sunderland, Wellington.

The controller for this camera is listed in controls please follow this link to find it.

£1200