To Vickers Wellesley’s experts : technical questions

[Graham Boak]

K8525 went to 47 Sq.

The item under the forward fuselage looks like an oil cooler, as seen on other types of this period.

It could not carry extra tanks under the wings - and didn't need to.

I believe you are right about the forward-firing machine gun, but can't confirm it at the moment.

[Bill Walker]

Just a minor addition: the vertical strut in front of the circular ADF antenna is actually a mast. The antenna it supports is a piece of wire coming out of the fuselage, to the top of the mast, and then back to the fixed vertical fin. The long length was needed because of the low frequency (and therefore long wavelength) of radios of that time.

[BABIN]

Thank you very much to Juha, Graham, Dennis and Bill.

Pierre