Bloodhound on Thames

The reason the REME missile is not on the BMPG website is because its a Thunderbird which is not a Bloodhound in any shape of form (it was a totally different missile built by a different company). The Haywood did pay for the restoration and it will be going back to Neatishead in the very near future. The markings are totally authentic for a Mk 2 out of the Factory and were based on photos supplied by the Swiss Bloodhound museum and measurements I took on a trip over there in June of last year as I did the master graphics for it (shown below). All of the Bloodhounds at Chelmsford were sold to the same person. I know who’s got them, but cannot say on here who has them or where they have gone.

On the Bloodhound subject the gate guard plinth mounted example has gone from Arborfield REME camp and is not mentioned on the website dealing with preservation/ existing relics http://www.bmpg.org.uk/index.html

Damn and blast! although to be fair I haven’t been to their yard for ten years now; from memory, Steve told me that they couldn’t be sold, but then he told me a lot of things, equally inaccurate.

You are losing it Stuart, I posted them on the Forum when they hit Ebay, there were two, one was pretty good, other not as good, I heard the better one sold, the other is still there, here is the listing number, 261741940792. there was a JP233 runway denial dispenser, I remember when that arrived, probably pretty rare after the shooting down of Peters and Nichol in the Gulf War when the idea of flying slowly down a runway at low altitude in combat was probably not the best tactic.

Couldn’t or wouldn’t oh yes I remember I have said before the cages of practice bombs that came in with it, complete and mint, can I buy one ?, no ! following week all the parachutes taken out and cut off, then slowly battered, stripped, left outside and worthless, a repeated tale of stuff, the two J79’s from one of the F4J’s same again they languished until wrecked.

It is the one that was recently restored for, and is on loan from, the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum at Neatishead…

Thanks for that – hope it’s loan for the art exhibition paid for it’s refurbishment or at least resulted in a contribution towards the museum’s finances.

It is the one that was recently restored for, and is on loan from, the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum at Neatishead…

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/photos_fancy_that_norfolk_s_bloodhound_cold_war_missile_is_lowered_on_top_of_london_s_hayward_gallery_1_3940819

And –

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/cromer_body_and_repair_centre_s_latest_job_re_spraying_a_ground_to_air_missile_1_3925862

And a snippet of the Look East report –

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=811622152251999&set=vb.122103087870579&type=2&theater

There were two remaining ones left in the yard sold on Ebay by the new occupants of the yard, surprised you weren’t on the case Stuart

Damn and blast! although to be fair I haven’t been to their yard for ten years now; from memory, Steve told me that they couldn’t be sold, but then he told me a lot of things, equally inaccurate.

It looks in good nick

There were two remaining ones left in the yard sold on Ebay by the new occupants of the yard, surprised you weren’t on the case Stuart

It’s possibly the one from the scrapyard in the Somerset area.

Will it get melted into ingots when the exhibition is finished?…..

I like the way the report said it was ‘created’ by the artist. Presuming they mean the Bloodhound, not the South Bank.

Is it just coincidence this appears as Tu-95s are being seen close to British airspace again? Perhaps more will appear cunningly disguised as ‘works of art’ 😉

Roger Smith.

Did Hanningfield metals not have a few of them?

A sub-conscious warning?

The piece speaks to me on numerous levels. Its at once futuristic and yet has echos of the futility of war whilst bringing into sharp relief the inescapable fact that some people get to call themselves artists and get money for old rope! (Pretentious?? Moi??)

Some might call it art, others might call it a gate guard…..