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Bolton Whirlwind

Does anyone have any clues on the current location of nomadic Whirlwind HAS.7 XN385 which has loitered in the area for a while?

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By: Newforest - 10th December 2006 at 21:27

Neil, although the stally in the picture is not very clear I’m fairley certain that its STAL 38. I purchased the truck via e-bay in August 2005 from a chap in Westhoughton, Bolton. At the time he also had listed the helicopter, a Sopwith camel bi-plane, some vintage motorbikes, a jet engined single seat training air plane,

I wonder if this is the 1 1/2 Strutter that moved near Southampton?:confused:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=56199&highlight=Sopwith+1%2F2+Strutter

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By: Rlangham - 10th December 2006 at 18:34

Found a photo of it on the demobbed aircraft site and spotted a Stalwart 6×6 amphibious truck behind, so asked on a military vehicle forum. Got this response, hope it’s of use

Rob,

Asked the question for you over on the Stalwart owners group and one of the guys there replied thus:

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Neil, although the stally in the picture is not very clear I’m fairley certain that its STAL 38. I purchased the truck via e-bay in August 2005 from a chap in Westhoughton, Bolton. At the time he also had listed the helicopter, a Sopwith camel bi-plane, some vintage motorbikes, a jet engined single seat training air plane, two Winebago camper vans plus a few other wierd and wonderfull contraptions. His name is Doug Hacking and lives on a farm to the north of junction 5 of the M61 Motorway. When I went to see him the copter had already gone but he still had everthing else. Doug is a very well known dealer of motorcyles in the Bolton area. He sells stuff on e-bay and goes by the name of mrlaughalot, or something like that. He seemed like a nice chap although I could never get a straight answer to my questions about the Stalwart. . I don’t have Dougs number but
if your mate wants to contact him I suppose a search on google for “Doug Hacking motorcycles, Lancashire” should do the trick.

I tried the google search and gave this result:

http://www.doughackingmotorcycles.co.uk/contact.htm

Not sure this is the answer you were looking for though!!!

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