Was certainly a problem on the Queens Flight Herons at one point, so it could be on the Comets.

Weere the wings on the 2s bare metal ? It always looked less ‘shiny’ than the fuselage, and I wondered if they were painted Aluminium/High Speed Silver.

Shots of the T/C2s on delivery look like the fuselage could have been painted as well.

D’you know I can’t honestly remember :confused:

I don’t recall ever polishing wings on the C2’s just fuselage bits and even then only a couple of times.
It was a punishment mainly for being in Chiefy’s bad books for being late into work or suffering from a bad hangover from a good Naafi Night. 😀

Even to this day I hate the smell of metal polish and the stuff we use to use was “Wadpol” which was like an impregnated cotton material full of brasso…ugh!

Strange things use to happen at Lyneham all the time…..anyone remember the Movements fella who went and found a nice aircraft hold to doss down in for the night shift and when he woke up he was on his way to Cyprus…….:D