Control Wheel ident
 

Can anyone identify the type of aircraft that this Control Wheel has come from?

Is the insignia AV...Avro?

The logo looks like Vickers Armstrong. Maybe a Viscount? Or Valiant?

Might be the Vickers-Armstrongs logo or Armstrong Whitworth. Doubt its Avro.

Can't offer any more though.

Think eckhard has nailed it.

Viscount cockpit.

Not identical but certainly very similar.

Not sure on the Viscount. The wheel has a transmit switch, while the Viscount in the picture has buttons. Captain's side though; I assume that bit on the side is a stick-shaker?

The logo looks like the Armstrong Whitworth to me.

Jonn

On further reflection Vickers Armstrong. VC10 possibly?

John

http://britishaviation-ptp.com/siteb...ictures/AW.jpg

Hmmm.

This pic of G-APIM's flight deck has the same switch, presumably there have been some variation between versions or customer requirements?

I'll go with Viscount.
I remember changing those Page I/C - RT switches.
The round thing left of centre is the stall warning stick shaker.
Some Viscounts had the parking brake on the column as well.

A Valiant yoke looks like this:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/806/4...53438509_c.jpg

It is definitively not a VC10 yoke either. The R/T and I/C switch does look like the ones on VC10s and Vanguards, which makes Viscount a likely suspect, apart from the logo. Perhaps those switches were common across various British airliners in those days. Has anyone looked at an Argosy yet?

Edit: And how about the Viking family? Including the Varsity and Valetta? I have a feeling there should be a brake lever behind the yoke on those ones, but there may have been differences there too.

Looks like Vanguard. See, for example :


Laurence

Vickers Armstrongs, not Vickers Armstrong. Sounds wrong I know but that's what it is.

Laurence, the photo you posted shows a Viscount cockpit. This is a Vanguard flight deck:

The Vanguard yoke is more like the VC10 one, so I'd rule that one out. I have also ruled out my earlier suggestions of Argosy and the Viking-Varsity family, so Viscount it must be in my view.

Dispite the title, I'm pretty sure that cockpit is a Viscount not a Vanguard. The Vanguard's is wider, has a wider centre console with 2 sets of throttles, and the cockpit windows are different.

Sorry about that then. But the controls in my photo do seem to be the right ones, so Viscount appears to be correct.

Laurence

I am sure the G-APIM picture is of a Viscount cockpit. I recognised the rudder trim as a circular knob with units 1 to 5 either side.

'PIM is definitely a Viscount!

Hi This is definitely Vickers Viscount, there were two types of yoke for the Viscount both slightly different. One type had brake levers the other type (which yours belong too) didn’t have the brake levers, I forget which series of Viscount this was attributed too, but would have appealed to such overseas markets as North America and others whereby they weren’t familiar to brake levers on their yokes.

Many thanks for the replies!