How much did the Vimy Commercial have in common with the later Victoria and Valentia, I wonder? It is an alarming thought to consider that the RAF had the latter on strength as late as 1944, even if well away fron frontline roles.

Adrian

David,

It looks like you’ve got an ID, but this might be worth a try to make the picture a bit clearer.

It looks to me like a sepia print that you’ve scanned in colour. If that is so, and if your picture software will let you, try converting the colour scan to greyscale, and fiddling with the brightness and contrast. I’ll make no promises as to whether the detail will become any clearer, but it works very well on pictures that have yellowed. It is important in my experience to scan in colour first, rather than scan in greyscale.

Hope that helps!

Adrian

Long term restoration to airworthy Steve

TT

Bloody hell! Now that would be worth seeing – any ideas when the last time a Battle saw air under its wheels was?

Adrian

Ambrosden depot near Bicester has a Tornado – at least I think it is Ambrosden, there are rather a lot of assorted depots on odd roads round Bicester!

Adrian

“Tally Ho chaps, nudist beach at ten o’clock!”

As for JDK’s pics from Pathe… flamin’ ‘eck!

Adrian

No, it was meant as a torpedo carrier – I’ve just tried Supermarine 322 Dumbo on Google – Picture 3 view etc seems to be readily available.

Blimey! Given that the Blackburn Blackburd in Stormbird’s post was also a torpedo carrier, and then the ‘cuda, what was it with the Navy and uglybugs?

Adrian

Supermarine S24/37

Hmm, I can see where the nickname came from!

By the way, everything about it on Google is either from here, or linked to on the forum. Can anyone addd anything else about this monstrosity?

Adrian

Pullman was my girlfriend’s English teacher – mind you, he taught it to half of Oxford as it was a big school!

Adrian