The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Aluminium data plate giving instructions for procedure connected with pressure. Translates approximately as: "OIL PRESSURE. In emergency: 1) In case of left motor stopping, i) if pressure is 45-60 kg/sq cm, rings open or shut normally. ii) if [landing gear?] legs do not lower, use hand pump. (2) If [handle/pipe?] pressure is zero, i) move handle down (ii) change undercarriage and wings flaps to manual and hand-pump (iii) emergency handle activates red light (iv) operate manual pump handle." Aircraft from which plate was removed is not identified. It is anodised and appears to be lacquered.
Souvenired from a Japanese aircraft at Dagua airstrip, New Guinea on 25 March 1945 by NX101707 Private John Lewis de Teliga, who was serving with 2/2nd Battalion AIF, participating at the time in the 6th Division 's campaign against the Japanese 18th Army in the Aitape / Wewak area. He cut the plate from the cockpit of the aircraft with a machete. He inscribed his name on the back.
Japanese Browning Type I Aircraft Machine Gun. Rivetted steel rectangular box section receiver with an air cooled barrel that is covered with a drilled jacket. The top plate is marked with the Nagoya
Lewis Mark II Aircraft Machine Gun. The action has a small right hand cocking lever, a wooden pistol grip and a leather covered rear spade grip for an oil brush (missing). The receiver top plate is ma
Lewis Mark II Aircraft Machine Gun with bolt. The action has a small right hand cocking lever, a wooden pistol grip and a plain rear plate stamped A10593-3. The receiver top plate is marked around the
The Plotting System is a large square unit housed in metal case painted grey. The front panel is black and contains a variety of dials and indicator lights. On the left hand side of the front panel ar
Parabellum Model 1914/17 Aircraft Machine Gun with a rectangular box section action and an air cooled barrel that has a slotted sheet steel cover jacket. A fixed handle is attached to the barrel jacke
