Thank you…my first attempt at such a thing. I hope more news will come out later in the year 🙂

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The rafm have 3 as far as I am aware….I have seem 2 at Stafford and there is the 1 they have out on loan. They are all recoveries with a pair from the same Manchester but not sure about the third.

Anything typhoon that you are aware of?

Strange where the serial came from…Iit is the ex ted Sinclair cockpit (tempest v) and he didn’t find the serial and had it for many years!

Seems a strange coincidence that all manufacturing equipment and engineering drawings(where known) were quickly destroyed as soon as it was possible after the takeover. Napiers were innovative and the sabre could cause serious damage to the merlin business…rolls needed the income to finance the growing jet arm so to lose anything to the sabre or indeed napiers would have been disastrous.

No conspiracy theory as it was business to rolls….and they were worried by napiers.

Here we go again with the ‘reprinting’ of myths regarding the sabre. At the end of the war the sabre could easily reach its servicing schedule (unless run flat out on v1 attacks when all other engines also had problems when red lined for periods of time).

The sabre was used into the 150 ‘ (not scrapped immediately post war) aand wasn’t one of the main reasons it phased out because a certain company bought napiers…I have read documents to say purposely to stop the sabre as it was a superior product (rolls royce)

My uncle in Australia was a mate of Tom hall, he sent me a copy of his book and then followed up with a signed second copy. I may still have the unsigned copy around, I will take a look if there is no luck from anywhere else.

As an aside it is unfortunate that tom passed away a number of years ago. What’s your father’s name by the way?