Excellent post Bruce. 😉

Is there any way of this years CWJ day run of 904 could be in memory of him?? 🙁

Sadly Peter, yes it was. I was lucky enough to have a bloody good wander around, as you can see, and probably could have grabbed anything lying in the pile (Olympus 301 anyone??:D ) but I just never thought to pick anything up.I had to stash the intake blank in a hedge for about 5 hours while I drove home and borrowed a bigger car off my mate to go and pick it up!! Under the cover of darkness, I drove back, picked it up, driving home with my neck cranked over to the right, and then threw it in the garage where it has been forever since. They weren’t even going to give me the blank at first but, hey-ho, bit of gentle persuasion… 😉

Ah that would make sense. Still seems a shame as there was loads of bits on there that could have been traded off or sold.

I think it depends on whoever is breaking the airframe up. Judging by the way ‘825 was ‘dispatched’ here, the guy at the controls of that JCB probably wasn’t interested in selling bits off, just selling the scrap. Contrast that with the way XM569 & XH537 were broken up (I have pics of these two being scrapped), everything of use/value/interest was removed properly, including the cockpits, in the correct way, before the JCB’s were let loose on the remains.

Seeing as this is back from the dead, here are my pictures from that day, ableit just over two years late!!

Destruction of XJ825 – January 1992

Sorry for the delay in posting these pics. They were taken by Peter Quicke in January of 1992. The scrap merchant that won the tender managed to turn her into a pile of unrecognisible scrap in a couple of hours.

This shows her in her BDRT role, just prior to her scrapping:

And these show what happened once the scrappie were let loose on her:

Here you can see the technical approach to the removal of the cockpit:

Here, you can see the remains of the cockpit section:

And there we go, another one gone. You can’t save them all…:o

And your credentials to make that statement are?

Moggy

It’s his opinion. What credentials does he need?

I am loving the fact that, over the years, every hurdle that has been put in front of them, they have jumped. However, instead of acknowledging the achievment of so many people involved, some are already putting up the next fence, hoping for a fall. I hope you are all continually proved wrong for many years to come…