Strubby team

Hi all. This is an oldish thread which seems to get revived, so here’s a little more. The pics presented by Contrailjj are from one of my old sites. I used to have a couple of aviation-related websites some years ago and a friend of mine is a nephew of the late George “Rory” Rorison, of the “Strubby Team”. Having a little space, I scanned what he had, which was mostly photocopies of magazine and newspaper images, with Rory’s own info added on the back – pukka gen, very useful to enthusiasts. It made up for the poor quality of pics, by the time the original dotty magazines had been photocopied then scanned.
By way of example, here’s the team in 1962. You’ll see that no common scheme applied. WH301, closest, has broken dayglo lines around the rear fuselage. WL181 is the serial on the camo aircraft, I think. The silver one with more regular dayglo would be WL190.

George came to Australia some years ago and we took him on an aircraft museum crawl. My son, then at school and uninterested in aircraft, never left his side. He always had something interesting to say, no line-shoots, just fascinating facts and funny stories. He sent my friend (his nephew and namesake) the photocopied material I mentioned, plus schematics giving good info on the paintwork and features of some of the aircraft familiar to him. Partly this was to help make a model for his nephew (below – dropped and repaired a few times since building).

As for team members, this scan is from one corner of a full-page spread in the ‘Evening Telegraph’, 20 Sep. 62 – from memory published somewhere in the Yorkshire area.