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The name seems a bit of a mixture, if it is a Hymer nova 680 from 1991 then it will be a very large version of the picture you can see n my avatar. If that is the case then the front locker catch is £1.73 and the door catch is £2.85 and they can be had from Lowdhams caravans either in Nottingham or in Huddersfield. I know the Hudersfield branch will send them out, tel 0140846426413  the front locker catch they keep in the shop and the door catch has to come from the parts department.

The heating should be a standard Truma Blown air system, with a fan control on the left end of the top of the heater panel and the Gas lighting mechanism on the right, to light the gas turn the nob  and press down to open the gas valve and the unit will click until the gas is lit ( if it does not click the battery in the unit needs changing ( I have not done anything with mine in 7 years ). The elctric heating control will be a small round switch with a black centre which has numbers on it, just turn the outside of the switch anticlockwise for one click for 2kw, clockwise one click for 500w and clockwise two clicks for 1kw. The water heater again is a truma unit and they usually put the switches for it set into one of the seat bases. There are two switches one is similar to the electric fire control and this one turns the gas on for the water heating ( you must remove the vent cover outside first ), the second is just an illuminated rocker switch, when it lights up the water heater is on .

If the van is an eriba Puck then it is a very small van and although some of the above will be correct there may be differences.

Ring Lowdhams in Huddersfield they have the expertise, they sell the large Hymer Novas. I know that they have the catches in stock, I bought a pair of them a couple of weeks ago.

Alternatively you could contact Hymer direct from their website http://www.hymer.com/cms/en/company/contact.html   and I know from experience just how helpful they can be.

This is my van a Nova 470 as it is in the avatar

That sounds interesting I must look at the truma site to see what sort of system they fittted. Enjoy the Hymer.