I have an original panel- I’ll measure it when I can get to it.

5c/432 is the section and reference number quoted on the MkIX panel drawing

I know of a fully fitted out RAF Phantom seat that was sold by an ATC Squadron, the seller, who is a member of this forum, haggled them down to £50.

I know of at least two vast underground storage areas in London. One, underneath Goodge Street Underground station and the other on the edge of Clapham Common opposite Clapham South Underground station. They were huge.

I think that they are both around sixty to one hundred feet deep and were used to provide short stay accommodation for the three services. Perhaps rather than manufacturing, the Covent Garden site mentioned, was used for the same purpose ?

Both were built as deep shelters for civilians during WW2/WWII/WW11. Part of the Goodge Street shelter, which wasn’t actually under the station, was taken over by Eisenhower as his headquarters and is now in use as a privately run security archive. There’s a memorial by the entrance. The Clapham Common shelter was used for troops and also as accommodation during the Olympics in, I think, 1948.

Does anyone have any history of this factory situated underground between Shorts Gardens and Betterton Street, Covent Garden?

That’s news to me, do you have any information on it? It’s not close to or on any of the deep level that I can remember, could it have been in the basement of a shop or other building?

If they can get the aviation side up to the same standard as the Motorsport side it’ll be one of the best museums in the country, it’s always a pleasure to visit as it is.

MH

Whenever I visit I always have the distinct impression that Aviation takes second place to motoring. There’s certainly more money available to the motoring exhibits.

Moving Mosquito TA634 outside to create space in the display hangar in which to hold a BAPC meeting in May 2007 was the best thing that I’ve participated in while attending one of their meetings! :eagerness:

Moving RR299 at a show at Wroughton was one of the best things I’ve participated in at any air show, my Father pushed and navigated her in Aden with 114 Squadron in 1946. Sort of keep it in the family.

A bit of a long shot but …..

I am looking for an article which was published in a 1986 “Air Clues” magazine; does anyone have a collection or know where I may be able to track one down?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards

Pete

Lots of people have odds and ends of Air Clues, myself included. DO you know which edition or can you say what the article is about?