John Dupre wrote:
I will be visiting Ireland, Dublin, the west coast and Cork, this summer. I hope to find some old book stores that might have vintage aircraft manuals. Specifically I would like to find a British equivalent of the Aircraft Mechanic's Handbook which is a pocket sized handbook of standards, hardware, procedures etc. Any help from across the pond will be appreciated.
Ireland is not (and was not in W.W.II) part of the UK or a belligerent, but neutral. (Northern Ireland was and is part of the UK - technically 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.) The Irish Air Corps did use British aircraft types - Lysander, Gladiator, Hurricane, and Magisters among others, but in small numbers and was not that much modernised or expanded during or after the war.
You might be lucky because it's a very unlikely area to find this kind of material, so any that found its way there might still be there.
The IAC has a collection at the Baldonnel base, I'm not sure how open to the public it is, but if you ask in advance, you may be able to have a look over.
http://jetwashaviationphotos.com/jetwas ... onnel.aspxhttp://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=50867If you are serious about obtaining manuals in a realistic time frame and paying a fair price, start by talking to UK enthusiasts on the forums. You might otherwise find something like this on a shelf, but it is now very unlikely.
HTH.
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