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Which 1930s factory – and building what ?

Here’s an interesting bundle of prints which I recently acquired along with some of Short Brothers’ Seaplane Works.

They appear to be from one or more sets used by Aircraft Engineering magazine in about 1939, with fig numbers pencilled on the rear – they aren’t obviously Short Bros. Can anybody identify what they show or where?

Obviously, if anybody has old copies of Aircraft Engineering from that time it would certainly help.

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2576.jpg

AE Fig 3
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2575.jpg

AE Fig 7
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2568.jpg

AE Fig 90
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2573.jpg

AE Fig 91
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2574.jpg

AE Fig 180
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2572.jpg

AE Fig 165
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2567.jpg

AE Fig 172
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2570.jpg

AE Fig 184
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2577.jpg

AE Fig 185
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/pondskater/2578.jpg

Thanks in advance

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By: Jon H - 19th November 2011 at 23:07

As an educated guess Airspeed plant in Portsmouth.

The engine mounts looks Oxford and a few of the wing ones Mossie.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 19th November 2011 at 22:20

They look like wing spar’s to me.

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By: G-ASEA - 19th November 2011 at 21:30

There’s something Bernard about the wing construction in the first two photos

They look like wing spar’s to me.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 19th November 2011 at 21:12

There’s something Bernard about the wing construction in the first two photos

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