Canberra Identity PLEASE (pretty Please)

.As an aside Flowers Yard also had some Bristol Hercules exhaust collector rings,which i believe went to Canada in 1995/96 and now reside on Halifax NA337.

Yep Geoff,
I was the one dealing with Mr Karl Kjasgaard, who was with the team restoring NA337 . I emailed him, and he came over and visited me, and we went to flowers yard to see what could be used for the NA337 Project, I believe the Cowls /Collector rings came from Hastings Type, and I do remember he did grab a few bits, we saw quite alot of him Back then.

The poor old canberra nose was smashed to ******y though, but I remember the London -Christchurch on her.. which at the time, I never realised the importance of it .

Canberra WE142

Hi,
Just found your web site and found it very informative.I am disposing of part of my aviation artefact collection and one of the items is the nose skinning from WE142 with the ‘London-Christchurch’ inscription on it.I hope this will be of interest to someone.It is on e bay at the moment.I am hoping to dig out a photo of WE142 at Heathrow prior to the start of the race.

As an aside Flowers Yard also had some Bristol Hercules exhaust collector rings,which i believe went to Canada in 1995/96 and now reside on Halifax NA337.

Could be PROSPERITY or POSTERITY?:D

Ok i am sooooooooo good with my spelling, 😮

Posterity,
I bet your a teacher in real life , ever heard the phrase “No one likes a smart ****” hehe:p 😀

I got it wrong

Hi, i got it wrong in the earlier post,
Air britain just says sold as scrap sept 1970,

but on “Canberra Survivors ” website it says Flowers Yard

http://www.bywat.co.uk/canb06.html

i saved this piece for prosperity

Could be PROSPERITY or POSTERITY?:D

WE142

Air Britain serials files WA-WZ
we142 it states ” we142 540Sqn/231ocu , sold as scrap 1970, to flowers scrapyard chippenham”

also i was a regular at flowers, and when the day of the final sale came ,i took this piece from her , i don’t believe she was sold , and was broken up, it was the cockpit /Nose only, and it was busted open ,crushed ,
i saved this piece for prosperity

Wasn’t WD965 (c/n EEP 71047) mentioned recently as also being a Flowers’ yard inmate ?

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For the London-Christchurch Air Race the UK Canberra entry comprised two PR.3s and one PR.7. Two of the airframes are still whole and extant – WE139 at Hendon (PR.3) and WH773 (PR.7) now at Gatwick Air Museum. WE142 was broken up at 15 MU (Wroughton) in July 1970 and sold for scrap on 7 Sept 1970.

Intrigued as to how you know your ‘bit’ from the scrapyard was from WE142 as the cockpit section was thought to have been ‘gifted’ by 15 MU to some ATC sqn up north somewhere. I can’t verify that though. Maybe Dave Burke will know?

Nose had the legend London – Christchurch 24hrs 34mins painted just below the front of the cockpit. I think Albert Ross (of this forum) has a pic of 142 lying on the dump at RAF Wroughton.

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So, you are living in the garage now?:D

ahh well. its me mums garage, ive kinda taken it over ,
😉

got all sorts of crap in there , “alladins cave ”

But my Old Mum said to me ” Dont even THINK of putting that cockpit section in there, HMMMfff, as if i would :diablo:

besides that it wouldnt fit any ways ,lol:D

Hi Forum,

Just been Mooching around in the garage, and found a piece of airframe skinning, that i took from the scrap Canberra Cockpit that was crushed at flowers Yard Chippenham, about 10 years ago,

So, you are living in the garage now?:D

Har Har 😀

Not a bad Idea, you know i am starting to fall for the old Bird, even found some canberra crashsites that may Possibly be worth taking a look at , (with a MOD licence of course )
Not worth next to nothing, like spitfire dig bits, etc, But i dont do it for that.
But really interesting Postwar History, They have ” all got a Story to tell”
the way i am going we will be the Post war recovery group, just located a Chippie,(its a Local one,LOL:D ) and another Meatbox T.7 , that might be worth looking at ,That served with 12FTS at Westonzoyland 😀

Sounds very good, we will have to have a chat about all this looks like the museum idea is bracnching out, just need people to help us

Talk soon
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MERCEDES-BENZ 500E SPECIFICATIONS

Canberra Club

😉 Looks like we will have to start up a canberra club at wz :rolleyes: 😀

Har Har 😀

Not a bad Idea, you know i am starting to fall for the old Bird, even found some canberra crashsites that may Possibly be worth taking a look at , (with a MOD licence of course )
Not worth next to nothing, like spitfire dig bits, etc, But i dont do it for that.
But really interesting Postwar History, They have ” all got a Story to tell”
the way i am going we will be the Post war recovery group, just located a Chippie,(its a Local one,LOL:D ) and another Meatbox T.7 , that might be worth looking at ,That served with 12FTS at Westonzoyland 😀

Many Thanks ,Millom !

I will contact the guy, to get that elusive piccy, also thres a few others he might have 😀
(unless anyone allready have a free one ) Cheeky I know, but dont ask dont get 🙂 😀 :diablo:
many thanks
Chris C

😉 Looks like we will have to start up a canberra club at wz :rolleyes: 😀
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The Cigar Boss

One can be found here

http://www.ajjcollection.co.uk/RAF8.HTM

sorry found her !!

Sorry gang,
but just found her Serial No on the Net, she was a PR.3 No WE142
was part of the airace team for the above said race, with 540 Sqn RAF Wyton. sold to Flowers Scrap yard in 1970,
but Still No photos of her, “Have any of you ANY phtos of her either at the yard , or even better whilst in service ???
thanks again
Chris C