From the mid to late 1960s to the early 1980s I used to visit a fabulous aircraft scrapyard near Brumley Brae, to the north west of Elgin.
Often called Quarrywood (which also has scrapped aircraft), the Brumley Brae site was an Alladin’s cave for us young lads, as it was absolutely stuffed full of substantial pieces of mainly post-war aircraft which had been struck off charge at nearby Lossiemouth and Kinloss.
Visits would usually be on a Sunday, when the scrapmen (probably Williamsons) had a day off.
By the front gate and office, a totally intact gloss black Seahawk used to sit, wings folded, proudly displaying a Tiger’s head design on its nose. Walking up from the office, an old sandstone quarry sloped off to the right, full of early jet fighter cockpit sections, probably Vampires, Attackers and Venoms. They were mainly made of peeling wood laminate, complete with gunsights, instruments, controls, and Bakelite seat pans with straps still attached. Also in the same quarry was an RAF Wessex tail, Vulcan intakes, and a white Buccaneer rear fuselage. Practically everything was removed over the years, and here is the same area as I found it yesterday, completely filled in (the red line denotes roughly where the quarry was)…
A little further up, the path used to split into two, the left side had Firefly, Sea Balliol and Sea Fury fuselage and cockpit sections, and to the the right, Sea Venom booms.
Now, the whole area is deserted and very overgrown, and the only paths are those made by small animals. Even remembering where everything used to be is difficult!
While there are still a lot of aircraft parts to be seen, they are mainly small and unrecognisable, and mixed in with automotive and heavy industrial scrap. Except for this Nimrod nosewheel guard!
Lots of ‘duck egg green’ paint on a lot of the parts, which I presume is Gannet…
By: brataccas - 26th January 2017 at 18:59
Hunter
thanks, guess or 100% certain?
another piece from quarrywood with serials
“54456 . L217 . 7
*scratched out serial*
F1?8487-5
65. 129. “
By: Sabrejet - 24th January 2017 at 20:50
Drop tank looks like Hunter too.
By: H.M.S Vulture - 24th January 2017 at 20:03
Hunter
By: brataccas - 24th January 2017 at 18:03
Friend found this recently at the quarry, looks very similar to the blue and white crumpled aircraft part I have, rivets look the same and on the inside of this piece has a circle stamp with N in it same as the other, lettering says “GUN INSTALLATION” I believe
By: TonyT - 23rd January 2017 at 12:52
Drop tank?
An external fuel tank that is jettison-able, I.e a drop tank in military terms or dropper.
Plates with the holes in it are the internal baffles to stop the fuel sloshing about and give it rigidity and the tube will either be the filler or more likely the sender unit for the quantity. the red brown material looks like phenol which is what you build them out off
By: Sabrejet - 23rd January 2017 at 12:47
That’s a jacking pad on that, it’s on its side.
Profile isn’t correct: JATO attach maybe?
By: Fouga23 - 23rd January 2017 at 11:33
Drop tank?
By: TonyT - 23rd January 2017 at 10:58
That’s a jacking pad on that, it’s on it’s side.
By: TonyT - 23rd January 2017 at 10:55
Looks like a drop tank to me.
By: brataccas - 22nd January 2017 at 20:15
Its more yellow than cream, exposure settings on phone a little high
By: nimgen - 22nd January 2017 at 19:58
The cream box looks like a drawer from galley equipment.
By: Meddle - 22nd January 2017 at 19:15
Some of that stuff must have a collectors’ value?
By: xg692 - 22nd January 2017 at 19:05
Anyone know what the red painted aircraft is with serial? and the yellow painted object, shackleton(?)
The red aircraft is a Northop KD2R-5 drone, http://www.wmof.com/kd2r5.htm, first flew in 1947.
Mike
By: Sabrejet - 22nd January 2017 at 19:01
Shelduck target.
By: brataccas - 22nd January 2017 at 17:57
Anyone know what the red painted aircraft is with serial? and the yellow painted object, shackleton(?)
By: brataccas - 22nd January 2017 at 17:40
I took a visit to this quarrywood for the first time today, first stuff I found was World War 1 era things o_o
By: Wulfie - 28th December 2011 at 08:39
And I thought the Balliol centre console I was working on yesterday was in a bad way ! I.m glad I don’t have to straighten that one !
By: Plazz - 27th December 2011 at 21:38
Scrap Buccs
For those interested, I have added a load of new Williamsons yard photos to the end of this thread here: http://tbag.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&num=1310507108&start=0
Cheers, Plazz
By: Al - 15th June 2011 at 22:44
As a serial Balliol cockpit collector, I would dearly love to know if there are any Balliol rear fuselage/tail sections, or indeed wings still in the Elgin yard, but it’s a long way to go on the off chance. If anyone knows what else is there besides a cockpit, I would be very interested to know.
The only Sea Balliol part I recognised at the yard last year was the centre section, mentioned previously, with the control columns sticking out of the cockpit floor…
Perhaps this was the same section I saw in the 1970s in the same yard, when it was more intact…
By: Wulfie - 15th June 2011 at 19:24
I saw the Balliol rear canopy on e.bay. I am almost certainly the only person in the World who has any use for one, and it’s too expensive for me. I shall make do with what I have, unless the price plummets.
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