John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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and a place to put'em. Besides the things on the instrument dashboard I have around me a couple of little canvas pockets - one for spare maps, and one for chocolate, etc -, a little bag with a field service dressing in it, a little black cat mascot, a hammer and lever to clear the machine guns when they jam and a rack for holding a Verey's light pistol and ten Verey's signal lights of different colors, oh yes - and a Pyrene fire-extinguisher clamped to the floor under the seat. Then on the instrument board I have an instrument registering the speed of my engine in revolutions per minute, a compass, an air-speed indicator registering in miles per hour, an aneroid barometer registering the height in feet up to 28 thousand - I haven't been up over 17,500 as yet -, a watch (8 day), a bubble to indicate level or uneven flying, a pressure gauge for my petrol-feed and a glass pulsator through which I can tell how the lubricating oil is feeding. Of course one doesn't watch
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.