Yes!
G-AIEH at Baginton. NP215 and NP 335 derelict at Exeter 26/8/60. G-AHBA at Speke. OO-ADS at Eastleigh 8/60. NP342 Squires Gate.
I was told on good authority that when the former Rootes factory at Speke was demolished in the 1970s (?) Halifax jigs were found in the huge basement. The metal plaque with the inscription “Chief Test Pilot’s Office” came to light around that time. It is now preserved in the Warplane Wreck Museum at Fort Perch, New Brighton.
Hi Tim, check your PMs!
To add my contribution a bit late, that is Speke without a shadow of a doubt!
According to the GINFO site, G-AGOS is currently de-registered. Its long list of owners makes an interesting read. Seen here at Christchurch circa 1962.
There’s a set of Impressments Log going for £50 on Abebooks. Don’t own one but I know a man who does. Lovely 1960s-vintage A-B style.
The only one I can find at the moment and a bit blurred on a very wet day. Believed at Exeter circa 1965 but I might be wrong on that as I can’t find my notes. Could be Valley!
Thanks for that info, Steve. These photos came from my old friend Dr Atholl Duncan’s collection which I acquired when he passed on. He also hailed from St Andrews and must have known Mr Cowie.
I consider these photo threads to be one of the delights of the forum, but then one man’s meat is another man’s poison, as they say. If you don’t like ’em, don’t look. And to keep Moggy happy, an Overstrand over the Tay if that bridge is anything to go by.
Not very good but any use Stringbag? Odiham 1960s.
Martti, I think you are right that these are hand-tinted. I must admit that I accepted them as colour photos when I first saw them. As you say, that T-34 shot is probably German as it has that blue cast similar to others taken at that time.
As for colour film, the last ten minutes of Eisenstein’s epic film, Ivan the Terrible Part 2, is shot on captured stocks of Agfa specially allotted to him in 1945. There is also colour footage of the victory parade in Moscow viewable on YouTube. Presumably still camera film was similarly acquired?
You’re almost certainly right, I didn’t give that much thought! Mutiple hits so presumably some sort of automatic weapon. Rather too many for that inadequate anti-tank gun that the Germans called the ‘Wehrmacht’s door-knocker’ because the shells tended to bounce off Soviet armour.
A few more Russian colour photos. I wonder if the T-34 was a victim of Stuka attack?
pagen01, Google English Russia for an amazing site. Warning: you will get side-tracked with all sorts of fascinating stuff! There is a lot of aviation and WW2 material in there but you have to search around.