BEA Vanguard PR photos

Personally I never liked the later BEA schemes, I much preferred the old ones as seen on their Vikings. There that dates me a bit doesn’t it?:D

Not ‘Bealine’ but ‘Keyline’ then. 🙂

Personally I never liked the later BEA schemes, I much preferred the old ones as seen on their Vikings. There that dates me a bit doesn’t it?:D

Sadly, I think you would have more chance of ‘plaiting fog’ than seeing either a Vanguard, Argosy or an Avro748 at Duxford

OK, on the next foggy day…

At risk of being called a misery guts, can I remind you all that this forum is intended as a place for members to post pictures they have taken themselves?

Thanks

GA

Apologies Grey Area. I did ask a moderator if I could post publically released ‘PR’ airline photographs and was given the go-ahead. I wanted to share these old images for nostalgic reasons. Can you mods give me guidence on this matter?

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At risk of being called a misery guts, can I remind you all that this forum is intended as a place for members to post pictures they have taken themselves?

Thanks

GA

Nice one Sarah. I was on the Britannia project for around 7 years or so, I always thought of her as more of a grand old lady than an airliner!. It was a good time, and through that I met someone who helped me get into the airlines. Roger, I will forever owe you one:) Sarah, more than one airliner has been roaded into Duxford and then painstakingly re-assembled, The Avro York and Airspeed Ambassador for example, along with the fuselage of a Handley Page Hermes. The Viscount 700 also arrived by road, all the way from Liverpool I think. Sadly, I think you would have more chance of ‘plaiting fog’ than seeing either a Vanguard, Argosy or an Avro748 at Duxford.:( You never know though, one day we may see an HS146:)

Steve, that Hunting livery looked good on the Vanguard, I never saw one in those colours for real.

This is my one and only picture of an airworthy Vanguard / Merchantman. It was taken towards the end of its career.

Steve

I think Duxford should have a Vanguard. (Bet it doesn’t have an Argosy either and that was military). Big mistake leaving out some of the British airliner heritage. Once they’re gone they’re gone. Not like the US airliners that were built in the hundreds.

Duxford is the Imperial War museum yes, but when I used to fly in people to see the aeroplanes the airliners were always a big part for them (it helped that they could get on board them). Does Duxford only want to display aeroplanes that carried guns and killed people? If so that is a sad reflection on how we see our heritage in this country. And in a big war like the one expected during the 1980s with the Soviet Union Britain’s airline fleets would have been pressed into military transport service.

I suppose the option of a Vanguard is now lost forever – you’d probably have to get one that could fly in. What a missed opportunity. 🙁

IL62m… here is a photo I took of your Monarch Britannia when it was untouched in 1983. It was the main thing on my list of aeroplanes to see. You didn’t have a Trident then or that would have been near the top too.

Great images all round. I have to admit that us guys restoring the Monarch Britannia at Duxford, never understood why we weren’t graced with the presence of a Vanguard, especially with the Viscount 700 that was there. Space was one rumour bandied around, along with some rumours that the IWM was not keen on expanding the ‘civvy’ side at that time. We were informed whilst working on the Britannia project, that at one stage, Monarch had offered a 720B to Duxford, but there really was a hard and fast rule that any airliners that were offered and subsequently exhibited at Duxford, had to be of British origin. I don’t know if its still the case, but they used to do engine runs on the Brooklands Vanguard, 4 Tynes turning makes a lovely sound. If they still do it, go see (and hear)it.

Correct Vee One…no Vanguard at Duxford and i have no idea why they didnt take one…but there is a complete one at Brooklands… below..

Found a hybrid BA/BEA arrowjack Vanguard in my Manchester collection..

Why isn’t there a Vanguard at Duxford? There isn’t one, is there?

I took this photo as a child outside the fence…

British Airways Merchantman…

A couple of shot’s of G-APER in west base engineering early 1960’s..

The same aircraft outside Bay 8..

Two EAS Vanguard’s at Liverpool 1977….as well as few Caravells and a B727 behind..

BA Vanguard G-APEK in Tech 5 late 1970’s…

Same aircraft from above..

http://www.artistic.flyer.co.uk/bea.htm

see link above Vanguard painting

brilliant
have a pic somewhere of me toddling out to one (age 2) at Ringway in 1966
nostalgia!!!!!
have you ever seen that painting of Speke with a Vanguard on the apron
will look for link

Sarah, you’re now top of my Xmas card list:) I love that aircraft, although my real favourite has to be the ‘Red Square’ I never thought that it looked quite right in the ‘Flying Jack’ scheme. Thanks for posting these.