Hucks Starter on Model T Ford - a photo on Flickriver

            My colleagues' research into Hooton Park airfield unearthed an official document that included an outline list of the vehicles to be housed in the Motor Transport (MT) sheds. As these two buildings survive alongside the hangars at Hooton it set me thinking what the '10 tenders, large and 10 tenders, small' would be like. A chance find of a book on Duxford airfield while I was doing fieldwork in Ely provided part of the answer, in the form of a photograph of that station's vehicles. Identical in form to Hooton, Duxford had a similar complement of vehicles, But the Duxford vehicle had been photographed outside the MT sheds. One of them was a Huck's aeroplane starter. This drawing is based on another photograph, taken at Duxford museum. The incomplete airframe in the background is a Hawker Hind from the 1930s.

The Hucks Starter was used to mechanically start aircraft engines from around 1918-1920, the traditional 'hand-swinging' of propellers to do the job being by then rather dangerous with more powerful engines and bigger propellers.

Taken on: December 27, 2014

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