I'm not terribly confident about this, but I'll have a shot at it.

How about the Miles Aerovan?

BSD.

Not a Miles aircraft. The first flight of this aircraft was a couple of years after the Aerovan.

Mad guess but Short Sealand?

Sorry jabberwok.

This aircraft was not from Short's inventory. This particular aircraft did not get past the prototype stage.

Mel

ATEL Accountant?

Just to re-cap.
British designed and built, late 40s, did not get beyond the prototype stage, flew a couple of years after the Aerovan, not Short, Miles or Vickers.

Accountant mid-late 50s?

Late as that was it (hey, an anagram of ATEL!)? Think the windscreen looks a bit wrong anyway. My other guess might have been the Apollo, but that had four engines...

Your re-cap is correct but it is not a photograph of the Accountant or, as
treadigraph, suggests the Apollo. This aircraft did take part in the SBAC Show late 1940s.

Mel

OK - another wild guess then. Was it the two engined version of the Marathon?

Sorry jabberwok. Not the two engined version of the Marathon

The Portsmouth Aerocar?

You have it treadigraph.:ok: :D
It is a photograph of the cockpit of the Portsmouth Aerocar.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...uthAerocar.jpg
You have control.
Mel

Cheers Mel, took a quick bit a research (thank you to the late A J Jackson!)

Sorry, I do have one (which I think hasn't appeared before), but not the means to post it just now. Somebody else please do take over!

No takers? OK lets try this one.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...pitquiz162.jpg
Mel

Navcant
 

Perchance the cockpit of a De Havilland D.H.80A Puss Moth?

Or a Piper J-2?

No legs oooutside the door, so it can't be a Puss Moth. Doesn't look like a Cub to me either. Intriguing!

That compass looks a bit French or Italian...

Or the Leopardmoth.

Not a Leopard. Flown one and the cockpit is similar but the panel's wrong.

Windscreen suggests the Heston Phoenix but we've already had that.

Sorry for the delay. This aircraft is not a De Havilland or Piper aircraft. Jabberwok you are right in saying it is not the Heston Phoenix. Philthy the aircraft was a British design and built in Britain
Mel