Universal Aircraft Services of Witney must have liked the type – perhaps oddly, in the 1930s, for an aeroplane deriving from Great War – as its ownership of G-ABYE (1935-38) was preceded by that of G-ACCG in 1933. Or maybe they had the misfortune to take two of the “old crocks” – as Jackson delightfully calls them – in part exchange for something more modern!

Ah, “old crocks”, now there’s a term that I haven’t heard in many a year – in fact since my childhood, when parents used to take me to see the “old crocks” participating in the London to Brighton veteran car run – but according to Jackson it was the “old crocks” event in which the remaining, superannuated Brisfits participated at the Hendon RAF displays in the second half of the 1930s.

Oh and by the way, does anyone know anything about the fate of G-ABYF which was dismantled at Redhill in 1939 but whose registration was not cancelled until 1945?