Anyone able to identify this ……

[Big Rat]

Recently moved house and going through old boxes on shelves found this…..

Anybody through any light the age guessing it’s aircraft related …..possibly military…..

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Edited by Big Rat on Monday 18th October 17:23

Edited by Big Rat on Monday 18th October 17:25

[anonymous-user]

Given that it says Port and Starboard I would say its most likely from a boat

[Scaleybrat]

Looks like a brake pressure indicator. The 6685-99 number is a NATO Stock Number so it is ex-military. The makers, Marilake Instruments are still in business and are now located in Ferndown, Dorset. Google will give you their details, maybe they can give you more information.

[Scaleybrat]

Should have added, I think it’s probably from an aircraft. Some aircraft used differential braking to aid steering and pressures would be important to the pilot.

[normalbloke]

hucumber said:

Given that it says Port and Starboard I would say its most likely from a boat

Aircraft.

[dr_gn]

http://spitfirespares.co.uk/Instruments%20Brake%20...

[Big Rat]

Thanks a lot guys most grateful I’ve just looked at one of the sites you’ve suggested and apparently it’s a generic instrument from many WW2 RAF types Lancaster Mosquito Spitfire and so on…..I shall contact the company at Ferndown and see if they can throw any light on the markings…. will report back

[eharding]

normalbloke said:

hucumber said:

Given that it says Port and Starboard I would say its most likely from a boat

Aircraft.

I'm intrigued to find out from hucumber what sort of boat has brakes though.....

[Buzz84]

eharding said:

normalbloke said:

hucumber said:

Given that it says Port and Starboard I would say its most likely from a boat

Aircraft.

I'm intrigued to find out from hucumber what sort of boat has brakes though.....

Gibbs Aquada?

[anonymous-user]

eharding said:

normalbloke said:

hucumber said:

Given that it says Port and Starboard I would say its most likely from a boat

Aircraft.

I'm intrigued to find out from hucumber what sort of boat has brakes though.....

Don't know much about boats, even less about aircraft it seems

That said, the boat Clarkson had on the grand tour could stop pretty quick, quicker than an aircraft. Unless you crash of course

[Simpo Two]

hucumber said:

Given that it says Port and Starboard I would say its most likely from a boat

Boats don't have brakes!

The sticker has an address in Dorset for some reason. Ah bingo: http://www.marilake.co.uk/

[yellowjack]

Big Rat said:

Recently moved house and going through old boxes on shelves found this…..

Anybody through any light the age guessing it’s aircraft related …..possibly military…..

6685 Pressure, Temperature, and Humidity Measuring and Controlling Instruments Includes Thermometers, including Engine Thermometers; Pressure Gages; Thermocouple Leads; Resistance Bulbs. Excludes Clinical Therometers; (FSC 6515); Thermostatic and Differential Pressure Switches (FSC 5930); and Meteorological Instruments (FSC 6660).

99 Procurement country code. 99 is UK.

633 7752 Simply the unique number assigned to the item within the 6685 NATO (or Federal, as in FSC) Supply Classification group.

The 6A bit in front of the NSN? Not sure about what it specifically means, but it usually denotes which specific part of an arm or service originally contracted for the item, or what it's application is. Not sure what 6A is applicable to though. And that's probably the key part of the whole number for the information you want.

Getting the full NSN correct is vital or you could end up getting something completely different to what you thought you were ordering. Like the time I tried to order a replacement 'Emergency Stop' button for a BR90 Bridging lorry and ended up getting a snot-o-gram from some RAF Squadron Leader demanding to know why I'd ordered a compressor blade for a Rolls Royce Spey jet engine. It turned out that the codification people at Bicester had got a couple of those first four numbers in the wrong order and caused a fair bit of upset and chaos. The Sqn Ldr had got his nose out of joint, and we suffered a delay in getting our bridge building truck back into serviceable condition while the twits at Bicester sorted their st out.

A few years ago I could have run an inquiry through the MOD stores system, or looked that prefix code up in a big old ledger, but I no longer have access to that sort of info.

[MB140]

I’m in work on Wednesday, I have to pop in to stores for some uniform. If I remember and the guys have time I will ask someone in SCAS to look it up and see what the system says.

I used a quick online NSN decoder but doesn’t tell you any more than you already know

[Yertis]

Simpo Two said:

Boats don't have brakes!

The sticker has an address in Dorset for some reason. Ah bingo: http://www.marilake.co.uk/

I suggest that’ll be 10a Wareham Road, Corfe Mullen. 0202 is the STD code for that area from whenever STD was introduced (1960s?) until I think the 1990s, but the 69 prefix was introduced mid-70s (IIRC).

[interstellar]

Yertis said:

Simpo Two said:

Boats don't have brakes!

The sticker has an address in Dorset for some reason. Ah bingo: http://www.marilake.co.uk/

I suggest that’ll be 10a Wareham Road, Corfe Mullen. 0202 is the STD code for that area from whenever STD was introduced (1960s?) until I think the 1990s, but the 69 prefix was introduced mid-70s (IIRC).

69 is corfe Mullen for sure so that’s correct. Weirdly I lived in corfe Mullen until four years ago so I know wareham road well, even more weird is I now live in Ferndown

[thewarlock]

Simpo Two said:

hucumber said:

Given that it says Port and Starboard I would say its most likely from a boat

Boats don't have brakes!

Well, they do. Fecking big ones.

[Big Rat]

MB140 said:

I’m in work on Wednesday, I have to pop in to stores for some uniform. If I remember and the guys have time I will ask someone in SCAS to look it up and see what the system says.

I used a quick online NSN decoder but doesn’t tell you any more than you already know

Appreciate that ……don’t you just love a bit of detective work

[Yertis]

interstellar said:

69 is corfe Mullen for sure so that’s correct. Weirdly I lived in corfe Mullen until four years ago so I know wareham road well, even more weird is I now live in Ferndown

I used to get mocked by the local punks while waiting outside the Dorset Soldier for a lift to the Air Cadets in Wimborne The chip shop up towards Springdale Road was excellent.

[swampy442]

Generic period brake gauge, here’s one fitter to our Hunters

[KieronGSi]

yellowjack said:

Big Rat said:

Recently moved house and going through old boxes on shelves found this…..

Anybody through any light the age guessing it’s aircraft related …..possibly military…..

6685 Pressure, Temperature, and Humidity Measuring and Controlling Instruments Includes Thermometers, including Engine Thermometers; Pressure Gages; Thermocouple Leads; Resistance Bulbs. Excludes Clinical Therometers; (FSC 6515); Thermostatic and Differential Pressure Switches (FSC 5930); and Meteorological Instruments (FSC 6660).

99 Procurement country code. 99 is UK.

633 7752 Simply the unique number assigned to the item within the 6685 NATO (or Federal, as in FSC) Supply Classification group.

The 6A bit in front of the NSN? Not sure about what it specifically means, but it usually denotes which specific part of an arm or service originally contracted for the item, or what it's application is. Not sure what 6A is applicable to though. And that's probably the key part of the whole number for the information you want.

Getting the full NSN correct is vital or you could end up getting something completely different to what you thought you were ordering. Like the time I tried to order a replacement 'Emergency Stop' button for a BR90 Bridging lorry and ended up getting a snot-o-gram from some RAF Squadron Leader demanding to know why I'd ordered a compressor blade for a Rolls Royce Spey jet engine. It turned out that the codification people at Bicester had got a couple of those first four numbers in the wrong order and caused a fair bit of upset and chaos. The Sqn Ldr had got his nose out of joint, and we suffered a delay in getting our bridge building truck back into serviceable condition while the twits at Bicester sorted their st out.

A few years ago I could have run an inquiry through the MOD stores system, or looked that prefix code up in a big old ledger, but I no longer have access to that sort of info.

6A is a Domestic Management Code used by the British forces to denote either what type of equipment it is or what platform it would fit to.

I..e 26AH parts are for an Apache, anthyhing that is 1D is a hand tool.