Northrop Gamma 2L G-AFBT

That’s a lovely photo. Thanks for linking to it, longshot 🙂

Northrop Gamma G-AFBT https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WoUAAOSwMhRfCDPH/s-l1600.jpg 

There’s a great article on the Gamma, “The Plane That Had It All,” in the March 1971 issue of American Aircraft Modeler. You can get a scan of it from this fellow:

http://www.airplanesandrockets.com/magazines/vintage-american-aircraft-modeler-list.htm

Thanks guys, I’ll try to get my hands on the book by Sanders Allen.
Edwin

It was the last Gamma built, coming a couple of years after the rest of the civil Gammas. By the time this ac (C/n 347) was built, the only Gammas being built were the Army A-17s and Navy BT-1s.
It’s not the best looking of the breed, a far cry from the record setting example used by Texaco. The Bristol cowl doesn’t do it any favours.
According to the excellent The Northrop Story 1929-39 by Richard Sanders Allen, it was delivered in Sept 1937 and used to test Bristol Hercules Mk 1, Mk 1 M(a), Mk 35 M and Mk 6 SM.
“Dismantled at Filton during WWII. Scrapped 1/46.”

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4589939477/

http://www.skytamer.com/Northrop_1933(Gamma2L).html

‘British Civil Aircraft Vol2 Putnam. I think the second edition might have it in Vol3.