Below is the text of an email I received in response to a request for information last year from Williamsons about their disposal of aircraft. A very helpful chap, I thought. By the way the ‘xxxxx’s are mine:
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Saturday 7th March 2009
From the late 40’s through to the mid 60’s our company in conjunction with a Birmingham firm BKL Alloys processed several hundred complete aircraft,
engines and miscellaneous spare parts. Most of the aircraft were broken up and processed through our furnaces at Forres, Gilston and Laverockloch By Elgin. Others were melted and run into ingot on location at RNAS Lossiemouth and RAF Kinloss.Quantities of uneconomical parts
were dumped in the disused quarry at xxxxxxxxxxx, this was eventually filled and landscaped.* Large quantities of material were also tipped into the
loch at xxxx and this was then landfilled and the area reclaimed for
industrial use.* I also believe that the local council landfill site at Forres and Findhorn were used to dispose of low value metals, gun turrets and cockpit
canopies . These landfill sites closed in the 60’s.
Hope you find this information helpful.
Regards
Douglas Williamson
Managing Director
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* that’s not the quarry at brumley Brae, by the way. (My asterisks, not Williamsons). And if my memory is correct, they bought Spitfires at £25 each…
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