A giant 20th century 1930s octagonal turret clock by Gents' ...

Hammer

£750

A giant 20th century 1930s octagonal turret clock by Gents' of Leicester. The clock with brass hands, finishing details and frame with perspex face. Damage to the face. Measures approx. 95cm diameter. 

Believed to have been installed at RAF Little Rissington in Gloucestershire, where Battle of Britain ace fighter pilot (and later author of 'First Light'), Geoffrey Wellum (b.1921), was based. It would have been mounted high so all of the pilots could synchronise watches. Wellum joined the RAF in September 1939, just before his 18th birthday, and was the youngest recorded fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain.