SOLD FOR £85
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Aircraft performance and air travel in fitted numbered wooden boxes (96 slides, in 2 boxes)
Box M, 46 slides
Slides 1-31 Text and Tables relating to aircraft performance, conventional and supersonic
Slides 33-38 Text etc for a lecture on the role of research
Slides 40-44 Tables for land, sea and air travel and transport
Slides 47-50 Miscellaneous
Box Q, Formulae, Graphs and Tables, 50 slides (one slide cracked)
Metal alloy testing. Aircraft loading, performance. Paraboloids. Some slides in French.
SOLD FOR £280
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Aircraft and their Performance in fitted numbered wooden boxes (98 slides, in 2 boxes)
Box C, Graphs, 49 slides
Graphs mainly relating to aircraft speed, ceiling, range, including supersonic.
Box J, Illustrations, 49 slides, 1 cracked
Slides 1-26 Photographs of the stratospheric chamber
Slides 27-34 Miscellaneous photos
Slides 35-44 Photos of jet aircraft and rockets
Slides 45-48 Photos of spitfires and flying boats
Slide 49 Newspaper cartoon
SOLD FOR £320
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Aircraft, Strategic Maps and Technical Data in fitted numbered wooden boxes (97 slides, in 3 boxes)
Box A, 49 slides (1 cracked)
Graphs mainly relating to aircraft performance, including supersonic. Some relate to WW2 explosives, like the Grand Slam 10 ton bomb
Box K, 26 slides (warped box; 1 slide cracked)
Slides 1-4 Photos and sketches of Swallow
Slides 6-7 Photos of Jet aircraft
Slides 9-18 Photos of flow patterns
Slide 20 Photo of three-engined flying boat
Slide 22 Photo of German WW2 flying bomb (doodlebug)
Slides 24-29 Unknown photos, possibly radar carried by aircraft
Slides 31-32 Miscellaneous photos
Box L, Maps and Air Routes, 22 slides (2 slides broken)
Range of Wellington Bomber. range of tactical missiles.
Maps of playing fields, Middle East RAF bases 1929-1956, UN voting groups, non-centrality of New York.
World maps based on various strategic cities, including London. London to Melbourne mail routes, by sea and by air (probably 1930s).
1969 world map: spot the gaps in our defences ... when the carriers are gone.
SOLD FOR £160
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Aircraft and their performance in fitted numbered wooden boxes (95 slides, in 2 boxes)
Box B, 50 slides, 1 cracked
Graphs relating to performance of normal and swing-wing aircraft, including supersonic
Box U, Misc, 45 slides
Slides 1-18 Medical concentrates on mouth & nose, throat, lungs.
Slides 21-34 Aircraft (one slide cracked) photos of aircraft, range from historic aircraft (1900ish) through WW2 fighters to 1960s commercial jets and Swallow
Slides 34-43 The geodetic structure of the Wellington bomber.
Slides 46-50 Committee slides show the four components of a Management Committee.
SOLD FOR £420
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Airships and Aircraft in fitted numbered wooden boxes (106 slides, in 3 boxes)
Box H, mainly aircraft, 36 slides
Slides 1-6 Geodetic structure, Aircraft wheel, viaduct architecture, miscellaneous
Slides 8-10 Photos of cracks in materials
Slides 12-17 Photos of aircraft, cutaways of Wellington to show structure
Slides 19-21 Photos, seagull in flight, ballistics, jet engine
Slides 35-43 Photos of prototype jet-propelled bomb?
Slides 45-50 Photos of model aircraft and construction of stratospheric chamber
Small Box O, 22 slides (5 slides cracked)
Starting at piece of paper which says "Start Here"
7 world or regional maps, 1 table about trade, 3 photos of R100 (2 interior, 1 exterior; damaged), 2 tables and 6 photos related to flight testing (normal and hypersonic), 3 diagrams of swing-wing Swallow
Box V, Airships, miscellaneous, 48 slides (1 slide broken)
Slide 1 1919 drawing of Airship for England New Zealand travel
Slide 2 Photo of mystery item (1920s?)
Slides 4-30 Photos of manufacture of airship R100 (one drawing)
Slides 31-36 Photos of R100 in flight
Slides 38-39 Drawings of 1919 airship
Slides 40-42 b/w copies of paintings of 1919 in flight and mooring to ship
Slides 43-45 Photos of cabins slung below airship (1920?)
Slides 46-50 Miscellaneous
SOLD FOR £240
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Seaplanes and other Aircraft in fitted numbered wooden boxes (90 photos, in 2 boxes)
Box N, Graphs, 24 slides
Batch 1 (slides 1-13) - Aeronautical data for aircraft and pilot (slide 1 cracked).
Batch 2 (slides 16-26) - Properties of materials under stress or temperature.
Loose- Many unmounted photos of seaplanes and aircraft 1920's to late 1930's.
Small Box S, Misc. Aircraft, 46 slides
Starting at labelled end:
5 photos of Supermarine S.6 sea plane which set speed record in 1929, 4 photos of civil single-seater aircraft, 7 photos of a WW2 military 2-seater, 4 photos of Hurricanes, 26 photos of aircraft structure
SOLD FOR £340
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Radio telescopes and Wallis' Interests in fitted numbered wooden boxes (114 slides, in 3 boxes)
Small Box R, Misc. Formulae, 25 slides
Graphs, tables and photos showing the results of tests on duralumin, aluminium and other metals
Box T, Miscellaneous, 48 slides
Slides 1-6 Microscopic cross-sections of materials.
Slides 7-14 Manufacture of mystery cylinders.
Slides 15-21 Radio telescopes, mainly photos, 1 design.
Slides 22-29 Architecture: photo of the Pantheon, plans of church rooves and domes.
Slides 30-34 Architecture: photos of a bridge, photo of a chiming clock.
Slides 36-42 Miscellaneous.
Slides 44-50 Lines of poetry and sayings.
Box X, Personal (Sir Barnes Wallis), 39 slides
Back group - Five slides of old architecture.
Middle group - 18 slides of ancient/old architecture.
Front group - 10 slides of old/modern architecture and 18th century sailing ships. Three slides of architectural ground plans. Four slides of children's swings, slide, roundabout. Two other slides.
SOLD FOR £500
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Supersonic flight in fitted numbered wooden boxes (106 slides in 3 boxes)
Box E, Miscellaneous drawings, 49 slides
Slides 1-27: mainly flight, 1940s to 1950s (2 slides cracked)
Slides 21-28: model Swallow and radio control
Slides 29-40: Swallow as real aircraft
Slides 41-42: missile and launch silo
Slides 43-45: supersonic flight drawings
Slides 46-48: projectiles, bombs and torpedoes (possibly slide 48 shows Wallis' hydrodynamic torpedo)
Slide 49: a futuristic jet aircraft(?)
Box I, 46 slides (2 slides broken)
Slides 1-26 Cut-away diagram of stratospheric chamber and photos of its construction
Slides 27-34 Photos of jet aircraft, jet missile?, jet car?
Slides 39-43 Photos of a balloon and a stratospheric balloon
Sides 45-50 Miscellaneous
Small Box P, 11 slides
2 drawings of Swallow, 1 drawing of Concorde, 1 hypersonic aircraft drawing, 1 airship drawing, 1 ellipsoid drawing, 4 miscellaneous drawings, 1 miscellaneous photo
SOLD FOR £460
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Supersonic flight in fitted numbered wooden boxes (93 slides, in 2 boxes)
Box F, 50 slides
Drawings and diagrams relating to Swallow and other jet aircraft and rockets
Box G, Supersonic Flight, 43 slides
Slides 1-6: Swallow
Slides 8-13: Air intake and thrust
Slides 15-19: Aerodynamics, swing-wing
Slides 21-25: Various Graphs and diagrams
Slides 27-31: Stratospheric chamber and wind-tunnel diagrams
Slides 33-38: Aerodynamics at various atmospheres; current and future aircraft
Slides 40-43: Radio telescope design
Slides 45-50: Hyperboloid and other drawings
SOLD FOR £4000
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about Dam Busters, bombs and targets in fitted numbered wooden boxes (81 slides in two boxes)
Box W, 40 slides (5 slides cracked), box marked in chalk into four sections
Section A: Four miscellaneous diagrams, one miscellaneous photo, two photos of original, almost spherical bouncing bomb
Section B: Five photos, five drawings and a map relating to the Ruhr dams and the Dam Busters
Section C: 14 photos of 617 Squadron's targets, some destroyed (including Tirpitz upside-down), a photo of a Tallboy bomb and two drawings relating to the Tallboy
Section D: Five photos relating to the Ruhr dams and the bouncing bomb
Box D, Diagrams, 41 slides
Slides 1-26 Aerodynamics
Slides 28-31 Stratospheric chamber
Slides 33-34 Diagram, photo and blueprint of a German dam, possibly Mohne
Slides 36-38 Diagrams of Tallboy effect on Bielefeld viaduct
Slides 40-45 Diagrams for bombing coal mines, oil storage depots, tunnels, railway cutting or embankment
SOLD FOR £840
A collection of Barnes Wallis' lecture slides mainly about airships in fitted numbered wooden boxes (88 slides, in two boxes)
Black Box, Graphs (crossed out in red), 27 slides (4 cracked)
Staring at the two-holes end:
Section A: 11 slides (1 cracked), two diagrams of airships, two tables and a list of WW2 shipping data, a table of rocket propellant performance, two photos of girders, three slides of text, equations and table
Section B: 10 slides (2 cracked), 7 diagrams relating to the performance of airships, three photos of the construction of R100
Section C: 4 slides, 2 diagrams relating to airships, 1 photo ditto, 1 world map showing trade
Section D: 8 slides (1 cracked), 1 diagram and 5 photos of the construction of the R100, 1 diagram and photo of the Graf Zeppelin
Box 1, Current Lecture, 61 slides (slides are not completely in order; 2 cracked slides)
From "Start Here" label:
Section A: 16 slides showing world maps and diagrams of airships for long-distance travel
Section B: 19 slides (1 cracked) showing the early development of long-distance Zeppelins (Germany to America) compared with British dirigibles and the late development of British airships, culminating with the R100
Section C: 18 slides showing the construction of the R100, the development of BOAC routes around the world, the long-distance Vulcan bomber and an image of the swing-wing Swallow
Section D: 8 slides (1 cracked) showing the potential of supersonic travel
SOLD FOR £9000
A 2 inch aluminium sphere of the type used in the Teddington ship tanks during the development of the Golf Mine "bouncing bomb". Discovered in a box of Sir Barnes Wallis' lectures slides on the "Dam Busters" raid, the spheres were the next evolutionary step after the garden marbles leading eventually to the development of the Highball and Upkeep bombs.
Between 9 June and 10 September 1942, Wallis made use of one of the two large indoor water tanks of The National Physical Laboratory at Teddington on at least 18 occasions, he stated "I moored a wax model of a battleship several hundred feet up the tank, broadside on. We fired 2in diameter balls at it, when of course after hitting the freeboard of the ship, the sinking velocity of the ball combined with back-spin to move it towards the ship, and by adjusting the mean density of the ball we were able to pass it right underneath "the soft underbelly", to quote Winston Churchill.
SOLD FOR £60
A stereoscopic slide viewer together with two boxes of slides - Studies through the stereoscope volumes 1 and 2 (33) and South African War (21)
SOLD FOR £75
An 18th Century and later rectangular oak box/trunk with hinged lid and iron lock, the base fitted a drawer, raised on bracket feet 37cm h x 66cm w x 39cm d
SOLD FOR £90
A 19th Century bleached mahogany side table fitted 3 short drawers with replacement handles, raised on square tapered supports with box framed stretcher 75cm h x 103cm w x 52cm d
SOLD FOR £180
An 18th Century oak side table fitted a frieze drawer, raised on ring turned supports with box stretcher 67cm h x 70cm w x 46cm
SOLD FOR £60
Eight various Halcyon Days enamelled Easter egg boxes, dated 1979 - 1986, all boxed
SOLD FOR £75
A gentleman's Tissot wristwatch with brown dial, batons and calendar aperture, on a gilt metal integral bracelet, the reverse numbered T033410A 11JA0144782 and 1 other with white dial marked PR50 numbered J376/476, boxed
SOLD FOR £70
A 62 piece canteen of S & B Kings Pattern silver plated flatware comprising large serving spoon and fork, 4 serving spoons, 8 soup spoons, 8 dinner knives, 8 dinner forks, 8 pudding forks and 8 pudding knives, 8 pudding spoons, 8 teaspoons, together with 6 Italian silver plated pastry forks and a pair of Italian silver plated salad servers, all contained in a mahogany finished canteen box
SOLD FOR £110
A glass and silver mounted ewer Sheffield 2007, 43cm h, by James Dixon & Sons, boxed,
SOLD FOR £180
An engine turned silver cigarette box with domed hinged lid, monogrammed, marks rubbed, 6cm h x 16cm w x 9cm d
SOLD FOR £70
A silver egg cup and spoon Birmingham 1975 by A T Cannon Ltd., 35 grams, boxed
SOLD FOR £260
A rectangular silver cigarette box with hinged lid, Chester 1898 by George Nathan & Ridley Hayes, marks rubbed, the lid inscribed "Presented to Mrs Edith C Vere from The Mining and Metallurgy Club in recognition of your loyal and devoted service" 1919 to 1952 5cm h x 20cm w x 9cm d
SOLD FOR £55
A Steiff Walt Disney "Mickey Sorcerer's Apprentice" teddy bear, circa 2000, boxed and unused, 35cm h
SOLD FOR £80
A collection of early boxed Dinky Super Toys to include Dumper Truck 562 (yellow body), a Leyland Comet lorry 531 (red cab, yellow trailer), a Foden Diesel 8 wheel wagon 501 (grey body, red underside), a heavy tractor 563 (orange body, yellow driver, green rubber tracks) and a Blaw Knox bulldozer 561 (red body, green rubber tracks, yellow driver)