Auctioneers farrell ajus (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Printed wraps 14x20cm. 4pp English, 4pp Arabic text. Good, centre-folded, tanned, sections loose with rust residue and a little loss to the spine fold where the staple has disintegrated, and a couple of ms annotations. RAF Kasfareet (formerly RAF Geneifa) was formed in 1940 on the western shore of the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal Zone. It was a highly strategic base, directly involved in WW2 and the Suez Crisis. Its location close to Sinai made it vulnerable to sandstorms. 107 Maintenance Unit (107 MU) was one of a number of support units formed here, responsible for maintenance, repair, and a flight test centre. Farrell, Ajus & Ghazarian are identifed as accredited representatives of the British Ministry of Supply, with offices in Cairo and Alexandria, here operating under the instructions of the British Military Authorities. Among their Conditions of Sale (p2) is an exclusion to British Forces and Civil Service personnel, and indication that goods are sold without warranty, and duty free (payable by the British Army to the Egyptian Government). The auction was held to sell off 57 Lots (listed pp3-4). These include diverse handtools, spare parts (eg, aircraft tyres and seats, Crossley MT spares), machinery (eg, marine engines, Chevrolet MT engines), equipment (parachutes, parasuits, boots and shoes), scrap (ferrous, photo and radio), etc. The previous owner has indicated interest with marks next to Lots 28 (Planing and Thicknessing Machines (2)) and 29 (Bandsaw and Bandsaw Setter), and neatly deleted 54 (Alloy Fuel Tanks). A rare and unusual survival.…