Hi
I’m a newbie to the site.
I go to Duxford on a regular basis and I thought you might be interested in some of the stuff coming up from London IWM
The link to photos is
https://picasaweb.google.com/116023008530751698868/20121202V1?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ6X4IOXp9TsnAE
Many of the new exhibits are being dispersed to various hangars, whilst a lot of conservation work is going on in hangar 5. The Mk1 Spitfire has a radioactive warning cordon round it – cockpit dials!
One of the photos shows the Spitfire with a Sopwith Camel behind it.
I’m not sure which DH it is in hangar 4 – someone will no doubt enlighten us.
Monty’s staff car is stripped to bare metal and covered in plastic sheeting.
ID of some of the items is scanty because they are just placed in H5 for the moment but it is very exciting to see new items.
I find the interiors of the V1 and V2 very interesting – each time I go a different panel is open. Interesting to see the compressed air spheres in the V1.
hope the pics are of interest to you.
By: jack windsor - 13th February 2013 at 13:37
hi,
thanks for all the info,
regards
jack…
By: Philip Morten - 13th February 2013 at 11:56
Hi,
noticed the boat in picture 2, can make out ANGLO SAT…-LONDON,does anyone know it,s story?
regards
jack…
Jolly Boat from SS ‘Anglo-Saxon‘
Label
On 21 August 1940 the German armed merchant raider ‘Widder’ sank the SS Anglo-Saxon, 5,596 tons (Nitrate Producers SS Co) carrying a cargo of coal from Newport to Bahia Blanca , approximately 800 miles west of the Canaries. Seven men managed to escape in the jolly boat which drifted 2,700 miles across the Atlantic finally grounding with only two survivors, Able Seaman Robert Tapscott and Roy Widdicombe, on an island in the Bahamas after 70 days. Thirty nine of the ‘Anglo-Saxon’s’ crew died. After the war the ‘Widder’s’ captain, von Ruckteschell, was found guilty of failing to provide for the safety of the ship’s crew, since ‘Widder’ had fired on the ship’s lifeboats. This boat was generously transferred to the Imperial War Museum from Mystic Seaport Museum, with the help of P&O Nedlloyd and the support of the Newport SS Anglo-Saxon Jolly Boat Association, Mr Anthony Smith and Mr Ted Milburn.History note
This jolly boat drifted 2,700 miles across the Atlantic, after the sinking of the SS ‘Anglo-Saxon’. Of the original seven men in the boat two survived.Physical description
boat Wooden boat from SS ‘Anglo-Saxon’, length 18 ft, beam 6.5 ft.
By: Flanker_man - 13th February 2013 at 11:29
Hi,
noticed the boat in picture 2, can make out ANGLO SAT…-LONDON,does anyone know it,s story?
regards
jack…
Dunno its story – but it reads ‘Anglo Saxon….. London’ if you magnify it.
Ken
By: jack windsor - 13th February 2013 at 10:15
Hi,
noticed the boat in picture 2, can make out ANGLO SAT…-LONDON,does anyone know it,s story?
regards
jack…
By: DC Page - 12th February 2013 at 21:53
Welcome to the forums David and thanks for the update and pictures. I’ve never seen anything except old black & white pictures of the V-Weapons internals, so that is especially interesting.
Cheers
By: TonyT - 12th February 2013 at 21:16
Hi David, thank you and welcome to the forums, 😀 some cracking images there, you will find some more from Duxford on here too, http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=121487&page=12
one hopes you continue posting, the more the merrier 😀
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