Handley Page 0/100 and 0/400 – What do we have?

Our relics of the Handley Page 0/100 are limited to two sections of fabric, 70/A/987, both cut from No.216 Squadron aircraft 1466- a fragment from the tail with the serial number, and a Demon’s face insignia with 14 bomb markings, presumably as mission tallies.

Largest relics of the Handley Page 0/400 in the RAFM collection are 67/A/7, a complete port upper outer mainplane panel, once displayed at RAF Museum London, and a group of four tailplane elevators, 75/A/272-275, donated by Mr. W.J. Port of Abingdon.

We also hold a crumpled section of fabric skin, 76/A/488, donated by Mr D.H. Brownley, from 0/400 D4569 of No.207 Squadron, which crashed in France in 1918.

A surprising survival is Oil Tank 83/A/349; we also have three four bladed propellers, 85/E/885-7, for the 275hp Rolls Royce Eagle as fitted to the 0/400, and two rather smaller 4-blade generator windmill propellers, 67/E/166 and X003-8078.

Currently in store is a substantial length of  0/400  rear main wing spar, 76/A/1751, donated by Mrs B. Smith of Wembley.

Also held are High Altitude bombsight Mk. 1A 73/I/406, standard fit for the 0/400, and in the Bomber Hall, 1,650 lb bomb 72/O/5, as carried by the 0/400.

We also have barometer 69/C/17, mounted in a cut-off propeller hub from civilianised 0/400 G-EAMC, the former RAF D4624, which was written off on 25 February 1920. This was donated in 1969 by Captain Sir Edward Tymms.