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Lot 562
Toys: a collection of Corgi toys, some in original boxes, the boxed including a Public Address Vehicle 472; Hydraulic Tower Wagon, number 14; James Bond`s Aston Martin DB5 261; Massey-Ferguson 65 Tractor with fork 57; Rover 2000 252; Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray 310; Volkswagen Toblerone Van 441; Citron Safari Olympic winter Sports 475; Aston Martin DB4 218; Bentley Continental Sports Saloon 224; Ghia L64 241; and unboxed cars to include Chevrolet Impala; Morris Mini-Cooper; Motorway Express Coach; Chevrolet Corvair; unboxed Dinky toys including a Trojan; Big Bedford; Volkswagen Beetle; and Brinks Armoured Car; and unboxed Lesney vehicles including 6x6 Tractor; Austin MK 2 Radio Truck; Scammell Breakdown Truck; Merryweather Marquis Series III Fire Engine; Massey Ferguson Combine Harvester; Sankey 50 ton Tank Transporter; Volkswagen Corvette number 34; Karrier Bantam 2 ton number 37; Hoveringham Tipper; 1914 Sunbeam; and Crane Truck Magirus-Deutz.
Lot 101
OMAS, Marconi `100 Anni di Radio 1895-1995` limited edition fountain pen, for the Russian market, 2/154, circa 1995, with dark grey cap and barrel with intermittent gold plated bands, with rolled gold cap band and clip, the latter designed as a stylised Morse code wireless telegraphy key, and two colour 18 carat gold nib, piston filler. The Marconi was designed to commemorate 100 years of radio and the inventions and experiments of Guglielmo Marconi.
Lot 543
* Marine models by Adamcraft Ltd, comprising ñ12.00 International Sailing Dinghyî, 1in :1ft scale model, c. 1948,of wooden construction, beautifully crafted and assembled having clinker-built hull on ribbed frame, with excellent attention to detail including brass cleats, fairleads, moveable centre-board, rudder and related fittings, fully rigged with gaff-sail, and overall varnished finish, complete with original cardstock tube packaging, together with a further kit-built scale model by Adamcraft, representing ñRAF 30ft Seaplane Tenderî, designed for radio-control, well-built and refinished in appropriate livery, without motor, but complete with original maker`s instruction booklet dated 1948, largest length 30 in (76 cm) (4)
Lot 1079
* Radio Receivers - Military, Maritime and GPO. A collection of Broadcasting & Receiving equipment, c. 1920s-1960s, including Evershed Vignoles ÒMeggerÓ Testing Set, Field-type Telephone sets (cased) type AD 1542 (x2), RCA Victor Wireless remote Control Unit No1 (cased) Canadian No. 030410 dated 1945, GPO various equipment including Multi-Range Meter No.121, GPO No.2 Voltmeter & related equipment, Negretti & Zambra ÒQuick reading PotentiometerÓ No. E-9285 (in wooden case), Wavemeters, Crystal Calibrated Minor (unused boxed spares), ÒHeterodyne Frequency MeterÓ type CKB-74028 series 6519 (+Instruction code-book), `Advance` Signal Generator Type 62, Marconi Signal Generator TF801B, a large cased Radio Engineer`s boxed tool and repair-kit, Marconi Signal generator Type T5995-A No. 54786 FM/AM, and Ajax Radio Telephone Type A25 etc. (approx. 20)
Lot 1080
* Radio Receivers - Military, Marine & Aviation. A collection of mid 20th c. Broadcasting & Receiving and Navigation equipment etc., 1940s-1960s, including National Rectifier Power Unit Type CAN 20090 RAS-5 (Navy Dept of Ships) US Maker, and another similar CAN-46198, National Receiver High-Frequency Type HRQ, also with RCA Wireless Sets No 19 MKII Ser. No. 8963 (USA) similar MkIII Series No. ZA 10479 (x3), No19 MkIII Canadian No 0-83844 and another similar, RCA Wireless Sets No 69 MkII ZA 30714, ZA26554 & ZA30714 (x2), Mk6 Z1/ZA 53566, RCA Wireless Set No19 Supply Unit Mk1 ZA 15208, together with Marconi receiver Type R1155 ref. No. 10D/1342 Serial No. 70941 and three others similar lacking identity code plates & numbers, Marconi Receiver Type R1155 ref. No. 10D/98AM - 8894, and another similar type AD8882B ref. No. 10D/13045 No 2157 with modifications plate dated 1945; further with Pye Communications Receiver Type RCR ZA23707 Ser. No. 18588, and Russian VT/TV Portable Receiver with Headset, and with a quantity of Helmets, headsets, Morse sender units, cabling and related sundry equipment, and including a box-file folio of related manuals and literature etc. (approx. 25)
Lot 109
* Bader (Group Captain Sir Douglas, 1910-1982). `Bader Talks to John Frayn Turner`,ten privately recorded Grundig cassette tapes now transferred on to two CDs, being interviews with Douglas Bader, Thelma Bader and a few others, conducted by the author John Frayn Turner some time during the last couple of years of Bader`s life, included in this lot is Turner`s transcript of the interview with Bader plus all Turner`s transcripts of his research tapes for his biography of Bader first published in 1995, together with a group of signed letters from most of the interviewees including Kenneth More, Alec Guiness, Henry Longhurst, Lord Shawcross, Lord Westmorland, John Addison, Hugh Dundas, Peter Townsend, Johnnie Johnson, Roy Welensky, Gus Walker, Denis Crowley-Milling, Alan Deere, John Stewart and Alan Garrow. A copy of `Douglas Bader, The Biography of the Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot`, by John Frayn Turner, reprinted by Pen & Sword Aviation, 2009, signed on title by the author and `Dowding and the Battle of Britain`, by Robert Wright, 1st ed., 1969, signed on flyleaf by Douglas Bader and dated 1970, both vols. in d.j. The interview commences with Bader briefly outlining his career - left school at eighteen and joined the Royal Air Force, commissioned in 1930, accident on December 14 1931, lost both legs, invalided out of the RAF in 1933 and joined Shell. By 1938 it was obvious that war was coming, Bader wrote to the Air Ministry asking to be put on the Reserve and received a reply saying that in the event of a war they would be only too pleased of his services providing he was passed fit to fly. Bader then moves on to his post war career - retired again from the Air Force in 1946 and rejoined Shell. `Shell in their wisdom had said, `Whenever you go abroad, you can take your wife`. So my wife and I have flown all over the world in little aeroplanes, in big aeroplanes, either flying ourselves or being flown. We have no children`. He then complains about everybody being in a rush these days... `The politicians are trying to run the world firstly by television and secondly by getting into aeroplanes, flying over the Pole to Tokyo, getting there tired out and probably slightly intoxicated from drinking on the aeroplane. In any case, overfed and overstuffed and quite unable to perform one`s natural functions for at least two days after your arrive... this is why you get, I think, these politicians fouling everything up. If you`ll notice, you never get the Eastern politicians flying to New York or to London or to Paris to discuss things. It`s always the Western bloke who go to Moscow. So that our blokes are always at a disadvantage... The Concorde will improve things because it will only take you three hours to get to New York instead of at the moment six and a half - eight hours`. `What happened about Reach for the Sky was this... the point was taken by me that it wasn`t that I was lucky in the war and was a well-known fighter pilot. The fact was that I hadn`t got any legs and this is the whole reason that you`re interviewing me now... And it is obviously of interest and is going to help other people who have the same problems. So I said yes. You can`t write it yourself. It would be distasteful for a man of my age. It came out when I was forty-four years old. Even Churchill didn`t write anything about himself until very late in life and he was a man of fifty times my size... I met Kenneth only twice before he did the film... the first time I had lunch with him and the second time we played a round of golf together at Gleneagles... I said to him, `Look Ken if I can be of any help, do let me know`. But he said, `If I see too much of you I shall caricature you`. And he was absolutely dead right, of course`. Bader goes on to talk about being teetotal simply because he doesn`t like the tast of alcohol. He talks about the current state of communication and the fact that management don`t know half the people who are working for them `This is what`s causing strikes and all these things`. At school speech days Bader tells the youngsters `There`s only one bit of advice I would give you in life and that is whatever you do in life - make sure you can look yourself in the face after you`ve done it`. As an example of this advice, Bader recalls being asked by the Air Ministry in 1940 about tactics, `My view was at the time, not just now, that we could have done the Battle of Britain quite differently and much more effectively. But there you are. Pilot Officer Bader always knows better than the Commander in Chief!`. `Someone asked me once `How do you want to be remembered when you die? As a fighter pilot?` I said, look. I want to be remembered so that other people when they talk about me smile... I don`t give a damn about being a fighter pilot. The thing is, I want to leave warmth behind... `. `When I was in the nursing home after losing my legs in 1931 I had a lot of spare time naturally, lying about in bed, I used to read a lot of Swinburne because he was a versifier??... and the marvellous stuff written by that Canadian, Robert W. Service, about the Yukon... There`s another chap called Banjo Patterson from Australia... it`s all this rolling verse, it`s the Kipling-esque style... a poet doesn`t just reel off words. These chaps really had something to say. You must have read that one `Loxley Hall` by Tennyson... and that marvellous chap of World War One, Rupert Brooke... `. `I saw Smuts in South Africa in 1947. I never met Churchill until well after the war... a chum of mine had said, `You must give him a copy of Reach for the Sky`... so I took a copy with me and I had written in it `To the architect of victory from one of the few` and signed it... I said to him, `I feel very diffident about this, but I really would like you to have it`... he said, [here Bader does a very passable imitation of Churchill speaking] `Thank you very much indeed` then he added, `But you want to be careful, you know, because I can retaliate!` wonderful remark right off the cuff... what you`ve got to remember is that Churchill never lied. He never lied to us in the war. He didn`t say, `It`ll be alright.` The second CD ends with an interview with Thelma`s youngersister, Jill Lucas (n_e Addison) who lived with Douglas andThelma for a while at Bay House, near Bognor. She was there when `Woodie` Woodhall, Station Commander at Tangmere came to deliver the news that Bader was missing after the morning sortie (9August 1941). There followed a difficult few days, Thelma beginning to believe that Douglas would not return but then the news was heard on the radio that Douglas was a prisoner of war and that the Germans were offering safe conduct for a smallaircraft to fly to France and take him a spare set of legs. Jill also talks about Bader`s character and his philosophy to life, `he thinks you can do almost anything if you have the will andthe nerve...`.(1)
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