I saw on the news last week that Jaguar’s latest concept car (CX-95??) would have a gas turbine for power. It would, as far as I could gather, produce electricity for the electric motors on each wheel.

Drop ’em a line – perhaps they’ll sponsor you :diablo:

What about an APU from a Vulcan? – keep your ears open for the next one to be scrapped (ducks for cover)>

Roger Smith

Schneiderman – I presume you have Ralph Barker’s book? Photo 1(a) opposite page 48 has a rear 3/4 close up of Prevost in his Deerdussin with race number “19” on. The tops of the floats are visible but the caption doesn’t say which year it is.

Ah, I see from the appendix “19” was his 1913 number!

Roger Smith

VM325 was acquired many, many years ago by the Midland Air Museum from the Halfpenny Green Air Scouts. It was to represnt an example of a type that used locally built engines (Armstrong Siddeley Cheetahs). She sat in store outdoors for many years always, seemingly, to low down on the list of aircraft competing for attention from a very limited pot. I remember conceiving a scheme to create a temporaray building by putting 2nd hand roof trusses on top of two 40ft containers spaced so the Anson would sit between them but it never happened.

I don’t know how the airframe is faring nowadays with the Carew Cheriton group but they organised that the two Cheetahs be fully restored by the Coventry Branch of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. This has been completed and, by coincidence, the branch’s newsheet arrived in the post this am. It informs that one Cheetah is in the restored control tower at Carew Cheriton and the other has gone on display at Pembrokeshire County Museum, Scolton Park Manor.

Roger Smith.

The AWA factory in Coventry did, I believe, suffer strikes during WW2 – in fact I read that Churchill was, at one time, advised against paying a visit there because of the industrial unrest.

Going back 25 years there was a large/widespread strike by the workers in most (if not all) of Coventry’s five aircraft/aero engine factories during WW1. It became a national scandal and feelings ran high – particularly amongst families whose menfolk were dying in the trenches.

To balance it out a little the factory owners were making healthy profits on war production.

Roger Smith.

Mark -According to some I work with the world is ending in 2012 so I wouldnt worry about keeping it updated for too long

Is that before or after the Olympic Games??:D

Roger Smith.

…..If you have access to ancestry.co.uk ……John

a number of local libraries now have links to Ancestry and you can access it (usually free)

Roger Smith.

I wonder if the Director General will touch on this at the BAPC Conference on 2nd October.

Go to:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=103293&highlight=BAPC

Roger Smith.