Beverley at Hendon – 21st March 1989

…Alas the sad demise, Feb 1990.

This is just an experiment on my part. If I remember correctly I could not get far enough back to get the whole thing in the viewfinder so I took two photos of each view with a good bit of overlap. I scanned the negatives and stitched them together in a panorama maker which is why they are a bit cropped at the top and bottom. I haven’t taken out any of the blemishes or dust spots before any body points them out.

Brian

hi great photos of the beverley ,it was an appalling decsion to scrap the aircraft and rob the aviation world of this truly classic air transport but at least she lives on in the photos great stuff

And here’s another one, though I can’t trace the date right now.

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Beverleys

And here’s a shot of XH124 I took on 14-12-86, which I was surprised and delighted to unearth recently. Also, a shot, taken in Sept 2006, of XB259.

A bit of Beverley trivia: some time in the late 1960s, I remember seeing on TV (in the UK) a brief item featuring Sandy Shaw (I think) standing on the undercarriage of a Beverley and calling up (a long way) to the crew in the cockpit. Anyone else remember this or know anything more about it, or even better, know where to get hold of that clip?

Hope you do not mind Brian a couple of my shots of Hendon’s Beverly found during a recent scanning spree,

Some of us had little choice but to live with those “naff” products of the 1980’s motor industry :(.

What an impressive sight she made parked there – now it’s just those two plastic Spit & Hurri replicas, still, I guess they perhaps do more to draw in the average punter than a large, some may say ugly (not me, I love the Beverley), transport type.

Shame she’s gone…

Paul F

Looks a lot better than those naff 80’s cars sitting in the car park!