As an ex Ford (Transit) man this poster is of past glories and failures of the Cunlliffe-Owen Southampton plant.Ford took over the plant later. This aircraft was a failure as with a lot of post war aircraft makers they thought they could build a DC3 replacement as we all know the only replacement for a DC3 is a DC3!;)
By: avion ancien - 4th October 2014 at 17:28
See http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=6622.0 (and if you wish to go back a little further in the company’s history, then also http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=6611.0). You’ll find some interesting images which are not, I believe, in wide circulation.
By: daveg4otu - 4th October 2014 at 16:50
Some pictures of the Concordia and of the C-O plant at
Eastleigh on my website at these links…also pictures of the Burnelli OA-1 being assembled etc.
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/co.html
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/ah1900/cicuprod.html
By: Arabella-Cox - 4th October 2014 at 14:10
10 seater – hardly in Dc3 replacement league.
By: Newforest - 4th October 2014 at 13:49
Great reminder of the past! Thought you would be an ex Freighter driver!
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