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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)
Lot 70
Quantity of books on music and musicians, including:- Klein, Herman, "Musicians and Mammas", Cassell and Co 1925, Dole, Haskell "The Lives of Musicians", Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton, (nd), Three bound volumes of the Radio Times, dating from December 30th, 1923 to March 29th, 1924, September 30th, 1923 to December 29th, 1923 and March 30th, 1924 to June 28th, 1924 and various other volumes (1 box)
Lot 501
1969 Morris Traveller Reg no. HEF 999G Chassis no. MAWS 1241324 Engine no. 10MAUH3551494 The Morris Traveller has always been an extremely popular car. This one, finished in Trafalgar blue with the iconic external ash framework, is described as being in good condition throughout, with the paint and interior being in fair but used condition. It features the 1098cc, four cylinder engine with a four speed gearbox. It has had a series of modifications, such as the addition of a servo and front disc brakes, as well as a radio, rear heated windows and reversing lights. It was used as a doctor`s run about from 1982 to 2011, having had a new engine and gearbox fitted in the late 1980`s. The car is quite original and, according to the vendor, drives very well. The registration number is transferable and we have been informed that the only other Morris with 999 in its registration is in the Falklands. The vehicle is taxed (until 31/5/12) and MOT`d (until 5/1/12) and comes with plenty of old MOT certificates. Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
Lot 511
1946 Rover 10 hp Saloon Reg no. MHX 778 Chassis no. 6110554 Engine no. 6110554 The 10 hp was well engineered and offered both quality and comfort. The body styling and construction was decidedly 1930`s. This 10 saloon is in superb condition. It is finished in dark cherry red and black paintwork, with the original brown leather interior, which is in really superb condition. It has a fully operational sunroof and opening windscreen and still retains the original fully fitted tool tray. Also still fitted is the original radio aerial mounted under the near-side running board, which couldn`t have helped the reception! The car was owned by a retired engineer who carried out a meticulous restoration of the car in the mid nineteen-nineties. The bodywork restoration alone costing over £5,500 at that time! The car comes with numerous invoices, copious old MOT certificates, correspondence from a past long-term owner, and a buff coloured logbook from 1948. During restoration, the car was fitted with a re-built larger 12 hp engine, flashing directional indicators, Quartz halogen driving lights and a Kenlow fan for use in heavy traffic in the summer. The past owner was meticulous in the general maintenance and up-keep of the car and went to every length to ensure a fully usable car in every condition, whether by day or night, winter or summer. This is a lovely Rover with a delightful patina to the leather interior. It is ready to be enjoyed. When new, it claimed a top speed of 70 mph, and it is able to keep up with modern traffic on the average road. Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
Lot 555
1977 Daimler Sovereign XJC Coupe 4.2 Auto Reg.no. PHP 704R Chassis no. 2H2125BW Engine no. 8L457203 By the mid to late 1960`s competition for the lucrative luxury car market was led by Jaguar. However it has been clear for some time, that if Jaguar/Daimler were to remain at the top end of the car market, into the 1970`s and beyond, there would be a pressing need to develop one saloon to replace all the cars in the existing range. To succeed the new car would have to be very special indeed and the XJ6 was born, and was an immediate success with its sister car the Daimler Sovereign. The previous owner had this car for 23 years, and recently the car has had new sills, front and rear screen rubbers, stainless steel exhaust, battery, radiator, AED unit, shock absorbers and bushes, electronic ignition and general re-commissioning. It has electric windows, original Fujitsu CX-113 EX1 AM-FM radio cassette, electric aerial and power assisted steering. The history file includes receipts for work carried out from 1985, the owner`s handbook, old MOTs substantiating the low mileage (less than 65,000) and other general ephemera. Overall a very nice presentable car giving a comfortable ride. Click Here to view this item on www.i-bidder.com
Lot 1341
Autographs: Anna Pavlova on an unusual Australian radio card titled `Pavlova the Incomparable Well Known to Listeners of SLO and SAR Melbourne. In an interesting album also containing a signed photograph of Ernest J.Hume, the Adelaide radio pioneer and a photograph of Hume at the amateur equipment with which he started the Adelaide radio station.
Lot 56
DDS. Bob and Roberta Smith (British, b.1963) I should be in charge, 2010, Spray paint and acrylic on found wood, signed in purple acrylic lower centre, 395 x 640 mm (15 1/2 x 25 1/4 in) Provenance: Acquired from the fund raising auction for Resonance 104.fm, a radio station that Bob and Roberta Smith presents. This work `I should be in Charge` is also the title of the recent book published by Black Dog Press about Bob and Roberta Smith.
Lot 241
OMAS, Marconi `100 Anni di Radio 1895-1995` limited edition fountain pen, prototype S029, circa 1995, with .925 standard silver cap and barrel finely engraved with intermittent 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, in a wooden presentation box with outer card packaging and paperwork, together with a folio of design drawings. The Marconi was designed to commemorate 100 years of radio and the inventions and experiments of Guglielmo Marconi. This particular example honours one of his earliest experiments, in which he succeeded in transmitting a signal 2800m to Salisbury from his ship the Elettra. A brass plaque engraved with the image of the ship is riveted to the inside cover of the presentation box.
Lot 273
OMAS, Marconi `100 Anni di Radio 1895-1995` limited edition fountain pen, for the Russian market, 1/154, circa 1995, with dark grey cap and barrel with intermittent rolled gold 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
Lot 298
A large scale model yacht "Gem", late 20th century, painted wood construction with planked deck detail including four crew and dinghy on davits, two masts with sails, electric motors to control propellor, rudder and sails trim, radio controlled multi channel unit in case, 54 1/2" long, 18" high, (deck to bottom of keel), housed in solid timber trunk with fitted interior and wrought iron hinges and other fittings, 64" long overall
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