A nice example of a 

World War Two Royal Air Force

Bomber Command

Ground Crew's/Aircrew's

5C/369

Internal Cockpit Inspection Lamp

Clearly marked on the base

LAMP INSPECTION CN MARK

REF 5C/369

COMMERCIAL PATT

it also bears the 

Air Ministry Crown Stamp.

The blackened-copper (?) hand-held

lamp has a combined hook & winder on the base

to wind back in the long cloth covered cable

and the lamp body measures approx 6" long 

or 8" with the winder extended.

The original war-time bakelite round plug marked

CRABTREE

PATENT

is still in situ as is the small bulb.

The lamps, manufactured by 

Lucas of Birmingham

were designed to plug into

the 12-volt electrical system inside the bombers' cockpits,

so in addition to being used by ground-crew on aircraft maintenance,

RAF bomber Navigators & Radio Operators

could also make use of these lamps

to illuminate their instruments whilst airborne on night raids.

Not sure if this could be made to work again,

but in the absence of that knowledge it is

offered here as a cracking non-working souvenir of the

RAF's Heavy Bombing Campaign of WW-II