Friend who is doing the piece on aircraft built by Standard Motors Coventry has come up with an intriuging photo.
An Oxford mounted on a trailer (the normal way they were transported from the Canley factory to Ansty airfield for final assembly/flight testing) but look at the serial!
Marked “VSTAN” was this a scrap/test fuselage for proving the method of transportation – was it built by Standard or Airspeed themselves?
Anyone got any ideas?
Roger Smith.
By: John Aeroclub - 21st July 2008 at 22:57
I would agree that it is a test airframe for ensuring Vehicle standards as they must have needed quite a few wagons. Even canted over the wide integeral centre section must have caused some fun on the narrow roads of the time.
John
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July 21, 2008 at 8:42 pm