This is a Cylinder Assembly from an air-cooled Bramo 323 radial engine dated 1939 from German Dornier Do 17 bomber the only aircraft with that type of engine that crashed in Great Britain during the war.
This Cylinder assembly is in fantastic condition which has been very well cleaned and preserved retaining all of its original colours and has been very well cleaned it even has some original greece still inside it around the valves that is how good a condition it is.The part has only some very light damage from the crash as it is a very heavy solid part which has stood up to the crash impact.The part is 14 inches tall and 10 inches wide in size and is perfect for display and makes a rare and striking addition to any collection. The part comes with 3xA5 laminated information cards with pictures including close up pictures of the engine and the site at Cowley during the war.
The part is from a bomber which was shot down and crash landed in Great Britain possibly during the Battle of Britain in 1940 or from one of the night intruder raids later in the war. The cylinder was recovered in the 1980’s from the abandoned site of the metal recovery dump at Cowley in Oxfordshire in Southern England.
Formed in 1938, RAF Maintenance Command carried out a variety of maintenance and salvage duties. At Cowley near Oxford was No. 1 Metal and Produce Recovery Depot – an aircraft recycling centre (as we would call it today) A little later into the war a gigantic smelting plant was constructed, together with ten large sheds for the breaking down all the various component materials recovered it was using much of the facilities at the Morris Motors car plant until it was increased in size.
The MPRD (Metal Produce and Recovery Depot) [also called "Metal Products Recovery Depot"] was a huge aircraft dump that stretched to around 71 acres in size by 1945. It contained over eight miles of trackways between row after row of salvaged allied and German aircraft that had crashed in southern England. In June, 1940, the site increased a lot in size due to the Battle of Britain to being a mile long by about a third of a mile by the end of the war there were gigantic piles of smashed aircraft, 20 feet high the site was not finally cleared until 1947 it is now the site of business parks but some of the old site is still ploughed fields.
This is a Cylinder Assembly from an air-cooled Bramo 323 radial engine dated 1939 from German Dornier Do 17 bomber the only aircraft with that type of engine that crashed in Great Britain during the war.
This Cylinder assembly is in fantastic condition which has been very well cleaned and preserved retaining all of its original colours and has been very well cleaned it even has some original greece still inside it around the valves that is how good a condition it is.The part has only some very light damage from the crash as it is a very heavy solid part which has stood up to the crash impact.The part is 14 inches tall and 10 inches wide in size and is perfect for display and makes a rare and striking addition to any collection. The part comes with 3xA5 laminated information cards with pictures including close up pictures of the engine and the site at Cowley during the war.
The part is from a bomber which was shot down and crash landed in Great Britain possibly during the Battle of Britain in 1940 or from one of the night intruder raids later in the war. The cylinder was recovered in the 1980’s from the abandoned site of the metal recovery dump at Cowley in Oxfordshire in Southern England.
Formed in 1938, RAF Maintenance Command carried out a variety of maintenance and salvage duties. At Cowley near Oxford was No. 1 Metal and Produce Recovery Depot – an aircraft recycling centre (as we would call it today) A little later into the war a gigantic smelting plant was constructed, together with ten large sheds for the breaking down all the various component materials recovered it was using much of the facilities at the Morris Motors car plant until it was increased in size.
The MPRD (Metal Produce and Recovery Depot) [also called "Metal Products Recovery Depot"] was a huge aircraft dump that stretched to around 71 acres in size by 1945. It contained over eight miles of trackways between row after row of salvaged allied and German aircraft that had crashed in southern England. In June, 1940, the site increased a lot in size due to the Battle of Britain to being a mile long by about a third of a mile by the end of the war there were gigantic piles of smashed aircraft, 20 feet high the site was not finally cleared until 1947 it is now the site of business parks but some of the old site is still ploughed fields.
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