Great pics!

Some quick answers:

‘Before Flight’. There she is, in the back seat with her father! G-ACOK is an Avro 504 Mongoose, 4-seater biplane.

It’s an Avro 504, Mongoose engine powered I think – the rest of it looks Avro 504N to me (curved aileron trailing edges, 504N undercarriage, fixed radial etc…) Looks like a modified fuselage to take five seats (inc pilot) so a wider fuselage and enlarged rear cockpit. The rest’s pure 504.

‘After Flight’. Father (ex-RFC) has put his beret back on… I thought civvy beret wearing was a post WW2 thing?

Berets were very ‘bohemian’ or ‘arty’ pre- war, probably inspired by ‘Monsuer Le Artiste‘ of the the Left Bank of the Seine.

‘The Parachutist’ What would he have jumped out of? It looks like the Mongoose is on the ground before him. The shape of that canopy must have been a nightmare to control.

It may be that we have a shot of the canopy part collapsed on touchdown rather than that being the developed shape. Avros (and just about anything else) were popular to use for jumping the parachutist stepping off the wing in flight, but getting onto the wing from the cockpit after take off usually.

G-ABYX was registered as a Handley Page ‘Olive’

😀 Try ‘Clive’. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Hinaidi

Was National Aviation Displays Ltd Cobham’s company? What was his relationship with the Avro owner? Was the Mongoose a post war conversion to 4 seats? Why was it only registered in 1936?

Yes, don’t know, not exactly (see above) why not? (or everything’s got to happen sometime).

Regards,