All of them, none of them or just the O/100, depending how you view it – the ‘Bloody paralyser’ bit comes from when Mr Handley Page was showing around the Director of the Air Department for the Admiralty around the HP works at Cricklewood and told him that his proposed design would be powered by Beardmore 120hp engines. Apparently, when told this, the Director snapped back ‘Look Mr Page, what we want is a bloody paralyser – not a toy!’. I’ve seen the nickname ‘bloody paralyser’ used for all of the HP WWI bombers, the O/100, O/400 and the V/1500.

Speaking of the V/1500, in this months ‘Aeroplane’ there’s a cracking shot of a V/1500 flying over my house!