Avro Anson VM325

Tim – I vaguely remember you…! I have some pictures of your father. Drop me a line at nige@modeltek.com

My name is Tim Emanuel used to be a member of the Halfpenny Green Scout Group my father Gordon Emanuel was group scout leader of the time. Remember the Avro Anson VM325  well!

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I will see if I can find any paperwork for any of the Ansons. We used to have a blue one that we used for taking cattle to Turkey. I may have some photos as well.

Those would be worth seeing! I can’t imagine how you would get one cow through an Anson’s door, let alone several?:eek:

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I will see if I can find any paperwork for any of the Ansons. We used to have a blue one that we used for taking cattle to Turkey. I may have some photos as well.

Those would be worth seeing! I can’t imagine how you would get one cow through an Anson’s door, let alone several?:eek:

Hi Nick, welcome to the forum from me too.
When we started the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society your dad, as I recall, very kindly ‘lent’ us various Ansons to help us raise funds at air displays.

Roger Smith.

Hi Nick, welcome to the forum from me too.
When we started the Midland Aircraft Preservation Society your dad, as I recall, very kindly ‘lent’ us various Ansons to help us raise funds at air displays.

Roger Smith.

………..and addictive!

………..and addictive!

Proctor

Thanks for the welcome, I have just unearthed the logbook for the Proctor
G-ANZJ, the C of A appears to have run out in March 1967.
I will see if I can find any paperwork for any of the Ansons. We used to have a blue one that we used for taking cattle to Turkey. I may have some photos as well.
This forum is fascinating!

Proctor

Thanks for the welcome, I have just unearthed the logbook for the Proctor
G-ANZJ, the C of A appears to have run out in March 1967.
I will see if I can find any paperwork for any of the Ansons. We used to have a blue one that we used for taking cattle to Turkey. I may have some photos as well.
This forum is fascinating!

Welcome to the forum, Nick. Having regard to the number of times the ex RAF Anson T.21s/Avro 19s have come up for discussion here, I suspect that there will be not a few members with not a few questions about the TAT Ansons! In the meantime, take a look at http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=87766 and at http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=109723. Hopefully you will find them of interest.

Hi, I am Nick Tipper, Tippers Air transport was my Dad’s company, I remmember taxiing one of those Ansons when I was a boy in 1968, I still have some parts off them I think. We used to be at Coventry airport before Halfpenny green, I presume they were flown to Halfpenny green from Coventry. I always wondered what had happened to our aircraft. I think it was Midland bank that placed a lien on the 2 at Southend. Then presumably ran up parking fees. If anyone wants any info, I will try and remember.

Welcome to the forum, Nick. Having regard to the number of times the ex RAF Anson T.21s/Avro 19s have come up for discussion here, I suspect that there will be not a few members with not a few questions about the TAT Ansons! In the meantime, take a look at http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=87766 and at http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=109723. Hopefully you will find them of interest.

Hi, I am Nick Tipper, Tippers Air transport was my Dad’s company, I remmember taxiing one of those Ansons when I was a boy in 1968, I still have some parts off them I think. We used to be at Coventry airport before Halfpenny green, I presume they were flown to Halfpenny green from Coventry. I always wondered what had happened to our aircraft. I think it was Midland bank that placed a lien on the 2 at Southend. Then presumably ran up parking fees. If anyone wants any info, I will try and remember.

Tippers air transport

Hi, I am Nick Tipper, Tippers Air transport was my Dad’s company, I remmember taxiing one of those Ansons when I was a boy in 1968, I still have some parts off them I think. We used to be at Coventry airport before Halfpenny green, I presume they were flown to Halfpenny green from Coventry. I always wondered what had happened to our aircraft. I think it was Midland bank that placed a lien on the 2 at Southend. Then presumably ran up parking fees. If anyone wants any info, I will try and remember.

Tippers air transport

Hi, I am Nick Tipper, Tippers Air transport was my Dad’s company, I remmember taxiing one of those Ansons when I was a boy in 1968, I still have some parts off them I think. We used to be at Coventry airport before Halfpenny green, I presume they were flown to Halfpenny green from Coventry. I always wondered what had happened to our aircraft. I think it was Midland bank that placed a lien on the 2 at Southend. Then presumably ran up parking fees. If anyone wants any info, I will try and remember.

(I presume there weren’t two E K Collins Ansons about?). Adrian

There were two Ekco Ansons but not two at the same time.
Prior to G-AGPG Ekco had used Anson G-ALIH. I am pretty sure G-ALIH ran out of hours so GPG was acquired as a replacment in the late 1960’s.
The two aircraft swapped noses so that GPG acquired the radar nose and after a short time on the dump at Southend LIH moved to Newark with a standard nose where some of the local yobs kindly torched her. Ironically the replacement Newark Anson VL348 also came from Southend when it was disposed of by the Historic Aircraft Museum after GPG was donated to the museum when Ekco retired her.
The problems with GPG started when the museum cut staff numbers. As a result it became very difficult to keep an eye on visitors and someone slashed the belly fabric at the museum and the wind got inside and ballooned off much of the rest of the fuselage fabric. Unfortunately it was downhill from there.
The Beverley cockpit also suffered for the same reason. I can remember a time when the Beverley was only opened up when there was a staff member available to sit in the cockpit and make sure nothing got broken or went walkabout. It got extremely hot up there in the summer!
I was saddened the last time I went inside to find so much damage caused by a mindless few. I was told much of the damage, including smashing all the autopilot, had been done with the aircraft fire axe.

Bother – so it is! Thanks for the correction!

Adrian

EK Cole, not Collins

Well, G-AGPG may look rough, but at least she’s in the dry, which is more than could be said when I saw her last at Brenzett in 1993 (I presume there weren’t two E K Collins Ansons about?).

I don’t even want to think about what would be needed to restore her.

Adrian

I can’t find the link on the web now but when I was researching Tony Osborne – the original founder of the British Historic Aircraft Museum – I found a thread with lots of information about Tippers Air Transport.
They had advertised the Ansons for sale as Executive conversions and tried using one to ferry cattle to and from Jersey. I think the site said the max load was 3 or 4 cattle with the pilot climbing in through the cockpit window as there was no space to get past the cattle from the usual entry door. The Anson’s career as a cattle freighter was very short as cow by products rotted all the fabric.
It also said that the main owner of Tippers was a farmer and many of the Ansons were stripped of their engines which were stored on his farm.
VL348 / G-AVVO is a Tippers Air Transport survivor. It flew into Southend in silver and dayglo and was impounded along with Tippers crew ferry Proctor G-ANZJ for non payment of parking fees. The Proctor went to BHAM and later to the Historic Aircraft Museum. The Anson was passed direct to the Historic Aircarft Museum and was passed on to Newark when G-AGPG was donated to the Southend museum by Ekco Electronics.

Found one here:::::: http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1220896/

Planemike

That picture has so much atmosphere. There is so much more going on in it than just the Anson’s. Definitely captures a bygone era that I wish I could have experienced.

Lovely.

Oh for a time machine & a quality DSLR… 🙁