Aeroplane Monthly April 2015………Supermarine Walrus

When Aeroplane did the database for the F-100 they featured alist of survivors done by a former work colleague and it was printed with a sponsored by specsavers on it as the list was HUGE….

Tim S

“The Weymann’s bus and coach works in Addlestone was adapted to manufacture vehicle bodies for ambulances, lorries, cabs and prison vans, and troop carriers. The Addlestone based Airscrew Company (formerly the Lang Propeller Company) manufacturing propellers for fighter planes during the Second World War and also manufactured the Walrus seaplane which was based at Chertsey Meads. The world’s only factory manufacturing darts for the troops at this time was also based in Addlestone. In Egham, Lagonda (Staines) Ltd ceased manufacturing cars with the out-break of war in 1939 and instead made shells, flame throwers, and aircraft fuel tanks. The Chertsey and Longcross “Tank Factory” was built in 1939 and tanks were tested on Chobham Common”
http://chertseymuseum.org/bully-beef

“Saunders Row of Addlestone set up a building and a circular concrete installation on Chertsey Meads to in order to water-test the small slow 3 seat ‘Walrus’ amphibian aircraft.“
http://www.rocremembered.com/chertsey-meads-ww2-sea-plane/

This neat visual archive of Saunders-Roe Saro adverts doesn’t help with the Walrus production location but suggests Saro were the right company to rework its fuselage in plywood (think they had a copper wire reinforced marine ply product)

http://www.aviationancestry.co.uk/?companies/&companyName=Saunders-Roe+Ltd.&startYear=1900&endYear=1980&&searchOrder=ASC&pageNum=1

What I miss about both magazines Flypast and AM looking at a particular type is that they no longer list surviving aircraft or substantial parts. I can understand that in some cases the lists would be way to long and fill a book however even a summary would help those who want to find one to view. In table form perhaps? Or have the editors given up with the arrival of the internet?

Not sure, Lawrence, talk was about 10 years ago…might have been Chertsey Meads
There’s a book reference, so not my imagination 🙂
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N0KIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1953-IA24&lpg=PA1953-IA24&dq=saro+addlestone&source=bl&ots=kbLepP218W&sig=dPnUXiBeVxVRDFJXGZLi7tO4Ku4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZRX3VJKsA6bD7gb-goCIBA&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=saro%20addlestone&f=false

Saro built buses (somewhere) as did Weymann in Addlestone but can’t make a connection (the Weymann bus factory is on Britain from Above)
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=weymann%20addlestone
Mick

Do you have the internet details of where the strip could have been ?, it would be interesting to see where the location was since I live relatively near to Addlestone as the crow flies.