David
I don’t doubt or dispute that the deal was decided thus. The inference in your previous post was rather that the “availability” of these airframes might have been known about in wider circles since mid summer.
Either way, the owners decided to sell them on to a dealer and that dealer will now – not unreasonably – try to sell them on for a profit which will also take account of his time, investment, dismantling, removal and storage costs.
As Twin-Otter points out, there is no Glass’s Guide!
You might be interested to know that Glass’s Guide prices are determined by big car auction ‘sold prices’. Each auction has a G.G. representative recording the prices and adjusting them for market forces for the next monthly publication. The base value of anything, is what buyers are prepared to pay for any article under the hammer. We see it in all types of auctions from Art to local jumble auctions.
As far as Lasham is concerned, a pair of Meteor wings have just been sold to a writer on this forum for £100. I suspect the scrap value at today’s prices would have been more, but the wings have been saved from that certain fate, however, was the price sold their real value ?
Good luck to Barry Parkhouse, he has ‘put his money where his mouth is’ and has the NOT so simple job of moving them…all of them. Try getting a quote for that job !!
Profit, and the saving of these aircraft go hand in hand, unless there is someone out there who likes to work and sweat, for nothing.
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