Road Runners – A different view of your fav aircraft.

Karl, likes a challenge, he has also been seen with the Vampire, and a Canberra, on a trailer with 3 wheels (briefly!)

dont remind me stuart wheels bounce well over crageways ?? all ways looks good with the old trany vampire on the back towing the canberra followed by a an other van towing the auster ?? allways nice to get back at those caravans

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This is a shot of a ‘first’ Ken Wallace didn’t know he had – The World’s first Steam powered Autogyro on Oxford Road, Manchester. It was a parade to drum up support to turn Liverpool Road Railway Station into a museum. The idea was we would take turns in pushing and steering PUD but when we found we were marshalled up behind the traction engine a length of rope came in very handy

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And this is how it got there and back. Of course the museum was created and today PUD resides in the ‘City Hall’ building behind.

FAA on the move

Sea vixen from Welshpool to Newton Abbot

Seahawk from front of the house to the back garden.

Firefly from Carlisle to Newton Abbot.

Gannet ready to leave Sandtoft for Elvington.

Moderators if you can do some thing about the size of these pics please do.

Any pics of Halifax W1048 being delivered at Hendon by Queen Mary trailer in the early eighties (1983 I believe)?

Cheers

Cees

Here’s a slightly earlier one…

Having just been fished out of the Euphrates. One of many pics from this era in my collection,

John

In 1969/70 my Vauxhall (bag of rust) Viva gearbox died near Luton so I managed to get to Harpenden and stayed with friends of my parents a Vauxhall director and I foolishly thought that with his connections it would be easy to get a replacement. No such luck, I had to wait a week for the local garage to fit a 2nd hand one and I had to take the bus to airfields like Elstree. I did manage a visit to the Luton (Viva) Van production line and they had hundreds of gearboxes!

I hope that when you returned the Bedford that they didnt check for scrapes. Van rental companies always check the outside but seem to miss the inside damage.

Robert,

This wasn’t actually a rental. I was working for GM/Bedford at the time.

Mark

Blimey – hadn’t realised you had got into the construction of them aswel.
Is it High Wycombe?

Somewhere I have slides of the Dornier 24 and Sea Fury leaving Hendon on trucks, irrelevant types for the museum but sadly missed.

Is that yours Baz, has it emigrated ‘cross river to High Wycombe?

Possibly slightly illegal overhang.

Seafire 46: Abbott’s yard to Redbourn, 1973.

Tail unit and the Griffon are sitting alongside the fuselage.

… a weekend General Motors road appraisal of the Bedford CF pickup. 🙂

Mark

I alway thought that as long as you tied a red rag at the end of a long load it was legal!:o

I hope that when you returned the Bedford that they didnt check for scrapes. Van rental companies always check the outside but seem to miss the inside damage.

Last one from me for now – SAAB J.29 arriving at Baginton from Southend. Again, haven’t looked up the date but sometime, I think, in 1984. Looking at the background the lorry is on the new MAM site, the Vulcan behind is still on the old (extended) site.
The J.29 was in quite a poor state after sitting near the sea for all those years and, before long, she was roaded again into the Coventry workshops of the Manpower Services Commission where unemployed (largely ex-AWA Bitteswell) workers did a superb restoration job (one of four for the MAM) on her. When returned she was one of the first aircraft to go into the new Sir Frank Whittle Jet Heritage Centre.

Roger Smith

PS thinking about it this photo might have been taken upon departure for the MSC workshop.

Slightly more recent pic of XK741

Roger Smith.

Possibly slightly illegal overhang.

Seafire 46: Abbott’s yard to Redbourn, 1973.

Tail unit and the Griffon are sitting alongside the fuselage.

… a weekend General Motors road appraisal of the Bedford CF pickup. 🙂

Mark

Image: Peter Arnold

The Ford Cortina Bob had brand-new. I think it was a few weeks after this that the Cortina and trailer (and we inside said Cortina) were all upside down in a ditch having skidded on some early-morning ice on the way to Thetford to collect Bob’s newly acquired BAC Drone(s).

Could have been worse the Drone might have been in the Trailer.;)

Just a thought but does anyone from the Aeroplane Collection have pictures of their Rapide being transported to Edinburgh in I think a removal lorry on a very icy day back in 196????

Speaking of dodgy loads, this forums & Camlobe’s WL756 leaving Cornwall…..

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Is it the “Tom Thumb” designed and built by Mike Crossley the car looks like a Cortina. Driver ???

That was quick Robert – and not a very good picture to work off either. Two more pictures here taken on the same occasion when we were collecting the Tom Thumb from Bewdley, Worcs. on 29th July, 1969.

The Tom Thumb is an obscure little machine – it was never completed/never flew and is rarely thought of. It’s builder Mike Crossley (with his father) had given up on building a Pou du Ciel after the fatal accidents and, having been at one of the UK’s technical aviation schools, decided to build a design of his own. For those that don’t know not only was the Crossley family THE Crossley family (cars, lorries, buses, etc., later bought out by Avro) but Mike Crossley was to become a Battle of Britain pilot and later rose to rank of Wing Commander. So, this obscure little, unfinished homebuilt does have some significance.

Roger Smith.

nearly forgot, the driver was Bob Ogden (at that time Chairman of the Midland A.P.S.) well-known for his World-wide aircraft museum guides. The Ford Cortina Bob had brand-new. I think it was a few weeks after this that the Cortina and trailer (and we inside said Cortina) were all upside down in a ditch having skidded on some early-morning ice on the way to Thetford to collect Bob’s newly acquired BAC Drone(s).

How about this for a road traffic challenge?? :diablo:

The driver ?

hummm… thats more tricky. Someone from the midlands who owned a Cortina in the early seventies ? 😀

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