If anyone asks me for a cordless drill I just point them in the direction of an old *eggbeater* manual drill 🙂

or to be told to ring a number and ask for “Mr Dearden” only to find that it was the local undertakers

I think it’s more likely to be ex NFS. RAF domestic sites used Austin K2 ATVs with ladders IIRC

I also think GXNxxx was one of the wartime Registration Number blocks used by the Home Office to register vehicles for the NFS and Civil Defence

(Edit) Here’s a picture of a similar appliance GXN219 -from the same batch as GXN215 – the red one on e-bay

http://www.fire-engine-photos.com/picture/number7551.asp

We decided that as the majority of archive pictures were in B/W we would do the aircraft in a monochrome scheme as well. This nicely side-steps further debate on colour authenticity and perceived shades and recollections of how they were…:p

Here’s some pictures of the new scheme, as you can see, like Bograt I have photo-shopped the rest of the airfield to give it a “period feel”…:D

that’s the wrong grey…………….

To amplify the A/V site’s review of WW2 activity: C-47 work was within MAP’s Civilian Repair Organisation by the type’s UK Sister Firm, Airspeed, who had taken a pre-War sub-licence from Fokker, Douglas’ European licencee. Overflow from their Portsmouth capacity. Other CRO overflow work was by Westland on Sea/Spitfires, and by Brooklands Avn. on Wellingtons. Phillips & Powis Aircraft Ltd. assembled 10 Master II there.

Didn’t Westlands build some Lysanders in Doncaster as well

You also forget there was a Ford factory in Doncaster (?) down on Carr Hill Road where Bridon are – were these premises used for aircraft production/repair

I also remember driving out to the M18 on the A6182 and watching the Hornet Moth climbing out parallel to me – happy days – wasn’t it owned by a Doctor in Doncaster?

OK I’m not Mark 12 ( I am not worthy etc etc) but could it be Spitfire F21 LA226 displayed at the Vickers HQ at Millbank in 1976/7 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Spitfire

I have looked through the complete list of MBEs and cannot find a Mr Fluffy……….:confused:

The military list is separate from the civil list

Congratulations A trip to Buck House presumably awaits – better get a big hat Mrs F

enjoy the day – and get there early for a front row seat…….

Here’s the 1953 commemoration.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=80992

Is that “Black 6”?

and isn’t K9942 still at Cosford?