A 2nd superb example of a
World War Two
Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm
Grumman TBF Avenger
Cockpit Altitude Limit Setting Gauge
for the
Mk-13 Torpedo
Used with devastating effect against the
Japanese in the Pacific War by
The US Navy & US Marine Corps,
especially at the
Battle of Midway
the Royal Navy also took delivery of a number of these highly powerful
American General Motors-built Torpedo Bomber
for carrier based-operations in the Pacific.
With a bakelite face & switching dial and produced by
The Monowatt Electric Corps
(est. 1925)
St Louis Missouri, USA
this gauge, in superb condition, was removed and
returned to Naval stores at War's end in 1945 when the bulk
of these amazing aircraft were scrapped,
though some continued to fly with
The Fleet Air Arm
into the 1950s.
Though ostensibly a carrier-based Torpedo bomber,
one FAA Avenger was also credited with the kill of a
German VI Flying bomb
over the UK in July 1944,
shot down by the dorsal-turreted Royal Naval air-gunner.
A nice souvenir from the
British Fleet Air Arm's 1944-45 Carrier War against
The Japanese Imperial Navy in the Pacific..
(Sold as a non-flight tested item of aviation equipment!)