I know that many very valuable airframes were saved by Mr Nash. I think that this includes much of the RAFM’s early/WW1 airframes? From what I know Mr Nash was similar to Richard Shuttleworth, and saved many early aircraft in the the 1930’s? Has anybody got any details on Mr Nash? Who was he, what do we have today that he saved, and what got away???
By: Steve G - 18th April 2005 at 19:18
Believe he owned:
Sopwith Camel F6314
Sopwith Triplane N5912
Fokker D.VII
Avro 504k G-EBJE/E449
Bleriot XI
Bleriot XXVIII
and a couple more, possibly Caudron and Farman? I think most, if not all survive at Hendon today.
They were stored at Brooklands during the war before being sold/donated to the RAeS and then to the RAF museum store at Henlow. Does anybody know if he flew all of them often before the war or whether he just collected and stored them, and if Nash survived the war, why did he donate/sell his collection? Just love the idea that we could have two Shuttleworth-type collections.
Steve
By: jeepman - 16th April 2005 at 19:07
If you have the Wrecks and Relics Picture Book, there’s a brief introduction to the Nash Collection and it’s founder in there.
HTH
By: RPSmith - 16th April 2005 at 13:01
Didn’t Aeroplane do an article on Nash at the start of their series “Preservation Pioneers” about 2 1/2 years ago?
There is a good summary about the gentleman and his collection in Alec Brew’s “Vampires and Fleas” Crowood, 2003 ISBN 1 86126 631 6
Roger Smith.
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