Bonanza Week !

The shed just never stops amazing me with all manner of mysteries, goodies and downright interesting things.  This entry we kick off with a bunch of motley looking packages. In fact they are all wax coated - apparently this was referred to as "tropical dipped"

Anyway, its dual wrapped and covered in grease - so what is it ?

Heres one of the units unwrapped (it kinda fell apart so I didnt feel guilty about opening it.

The item is a replacement Tee and you can see the typed words at the top Carrier M.G - which was a small tank to carry Bren Guns in WWII - so these packs are replacement parts for a Bren Gun Carrier :-)

Blink and you would miss this - Its an RAAF switch of some sort ! Quite small but very solid.

So this is a mystery one - looks like a four valve unit of some sort - hopefully someone will see the BS serial on the top and recognize what aircraft its from - in very good condition though !

Now this is where I started getting very excited. This is a part from the RAAF Woomera aircraft. To make a long story very short, only two were fully built, one as a trainer and the other as a full prototype, but the remaining 100 on order were cancelled and the parts scrapped/sold - and it is pretty apparent that Grandpa picked up more than a few of the parts along the way. No idea what this is but have about 15 of them already.  You can identify a Woomera part as it has the prefix 11- on the part.

Apparently the shed used to be full of this stuff years ago but collectors and the more unscrupulous "dealers" have cherry picked their way around- however I'm glad to say they missed a few too !

This is exceptional, and is another Woomera part. Its an elevator trim and all parts still work - You can see the degree meter in the foreground. The disc looks almost like Bakelite but it isn't

All pics above are different views of the Trim unit - really quite a find !

And just when I thought I'd found everything for the day - this pops up !  Its another Woomera part (at least I'm 90% sure as the number is hard to read, but sure looks like an 11)  and is referred to as a bomb runner. Indeed it had something to do with loading the bombs onto the aircraft. Pity the wheel is stuck at the moment, but I did find a spare wheel at the end of the day !

Looks like there would have been a handle here and sure there would have been a pulley cable from the hole to the wheel - but I could be wrong of course......

And for the phone friends, heres one of about eight back panels that I found for vintage telephones. This one has the PMG logo on it - given these were practically buried under lots of rusty bolts and bits of metal the condition is actually pretty good. Bit of polish work and they will be very nice !

Well that will do for now as it turns out I have a sick child on my hands - so I will have a day or so off and get my energy up and running for the next round (theres a monster load of stuff still on the table at the shed to come home !)