The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Dial face from a German aircraft tachometer marked "4" TO "16". The face is white with black numerals. 97 mm dia. On the reverse is written "Fokker No.863. Brought down by a British aviator at Flers, Somme, Nov 29, 1916." There also appears to be pencilled "1833" that may be original German.
An extract from "the Sydney Mail" of 14 February 1917, reports the recovery of this dial face from an aircraft by Corporal Arvan Pritchard A.I.F. "it is a speedometer dial and pointer [actually it is a tachometer] of a Fritz Fokker which was brought down by one of our aviators behind the front line on the Flers front on the Somme. Naturally i was amongst the first on the scene. The plane was smashed to pulp, also the aviator. It was one of Fritz's latest, having been made in September 1916; 863 was the number."
If 863 was the Werke Nummer (construction number) of the machine, then it fits with known Fokker numbers. W/N 861 was Fokker D.I 216/16. Therefore this machine would have been Fokker D.I 218/18.
Gefr Michaelis of JS12 was shot down and killed over Guedencourt on 22 November 1916 in Fokker D.I 218/16. It seems possible that this is from D.I 218/16, if the location fits. (Research by R Zankl).
Small piece of cream coloured German aircraft fabric, probably from a Fokker E III, on which is a written note in black ink by Herbert ('Bert') Matthews. The note reads: 'France 30.4.1916 Dear Bill Th
An approximately rectangular section of fabric, finished with two layers; a light blue/grey layer underneath and a red layer on top. The fabric is marked on the reverse with a circular ink stamp 47mm
Altimeter from German aircraft shot down by Australians on the Somme 1917. (part of the MC Collection). The instrument comprises a green-grey coloured bowl to which the upper cylindrical portion appr
Altimeter from German aircraft. No brand name but logo showing a bird with a lightning bolt underneath. The face has printed on it: Höche in Km D.R.P.a N.S. Nr 26878 The scale from 0 to 8 is gradua
A Carl Bamberg manufactured compass removed from Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen's Fokker Dr1 triplane on 21 April 1918 immediately after he was shot down. The compass is pivot mo
Cast iron rectangular box with a 1cm flange around the lower edge. The flange is fastened to a corresponding flat plate. The flang and the plate are drilled and tapped to accomodate threaded cheese-he
