From a large collection of negatives covering the Farnborough Airshow of September 1950, the following few are of reasonable quality. Since there are only a dozen or so, I’ll also post the 1948 and 1949 displays.
Photos by the late Gerald Lawrence, digitised and made available by Tony Clarke.
1950:
WE686 Hawker Sea Fury FB.II, RN:
WF320 GAL Universal Freighter (later Beverley):
G-AMCJ Gloster Meteor F.8 (later rebuilt as T.7):
G-AGPW Bristol 167 Brabazon 1 (scrapped 1953):
VX564 Vickers Valetta T.3:
G-AJYV Auster J/5B Autocar (To EC-AIR 1953):
G-5-7 DH Vampire Trainer prototype:
SE-BRL Fairey Firefly TT.1:
G-AINK Bristol Freighter 31 (To ZK-AYG 1951):
VX217 Vickers 663 Tay Viscount:
WF136 Percival Sea Prince C.1:
VX790 Avro 707B:
By: SADSACK - 12th March 2011 at 11:50
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fantastic pics, thanks for sharing
By: The"Eh"Team - 12th March 2011 at 11:43
Seeing those photos was like being transported back to a time I would love to have photographed,”with a digital” of course.looking at the fruits of an industry post war with such promise ahead and now knowing some sixty years later its history is just a record in books with the material bits in museums and scrapyards.(with the exception of a few in places such as Duxford and elsewhere) Thank-you for posting and is there any more.:)..Cheers.JB
By: DCK - 12th March 2011 at 10:20
Some of those designs are nothing but very ugly.
Great pictures and thank you for sharing
By: PeterVerney - 12th March 2011 at 10:13
Many thanks for those. Excepting of course the pic of how to ruin a Mosquito.
I went in ’49 and again in ’54. Great days, as someone said on the Malta thread, “when we had an air force”. I note some Nimrods have been reprieved for a few months, to help out over Libya.
By: pagen01 - 12th March 2011 at 10:07
Fantastic yet again, it must have been something else visiting the late ’40s early ’50s SBAC shows. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen a pic of the Prince prototype.
By: Sky High - 12th March 2011 at 08:22
What memories!! 1949 my first of many Farnboroughs – many thanks for posting these.:)
By: DCW - 12th March 2011 at 08:15
1949:
G-ALVG DH.106 Comet 1 prototype (Scrapped 1953):
PA147 Supermarine Seagull ASR.1:
VN799 Canberra 1 prototype:
VX784 Avro 707 (FF 4-9-49 W/O 30-9-49):
G-ALEG Westland Sikorsky S-51 Mk.1A (To WZ749 1952):
Westland Sikorsky S-51 Widgeon (To G-APPS 1958):
G-ALJA Percival P.50 Prince 2:
G-ALUB Miles Marathon 1:
G-ALFZ Percival P.50 Prince 2:
By: DCW - 12th March 2011 at 07:56
1948:
RA490 Gloster Meteor F.4:
RE339 Avro Lincoln B.2 Theseus Testbed:
G-AKPK Gloster Meteor T.7 (To Belgian AF 1948):
VW120 De Havilland DH.108 (W/O 15-2-50):
G-AJCJ Cierva W.14 Skeeter 1 (Scrapped 1952):
G-AILH Miles M.60 Marathon 1:
G-AHRF Vickers Viscount 630 prototype (W/O Khartoum 27-8-52):
G-AJPH Vickers Nene Viking:
PF606 DH.98 Mosquito TT.39:
TS368 Armstrong Whitworth AW.52:
VT487 Fairey Firefly AS.5:
VV219 DH Vampire FB.5:
VW897 Boulton Paul Balliol:
VW905 Bristol 171:
G-AJJP Fairey FB.2 Jet Gyrodyne (To XD759 1950):
G-AKBC Newbury Eon AP.4 Mk.2 (W/O 14-4-50):
G-ALCV Cierva W.11 Work Horse (Ex and to VZ724 1948):
G-ALCM Percival P.50 Prince 1 (Wfu by 1956):
G-AKSV DH.104 Dove 1 (To YI-AEH 1966):
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