Certainly most operational airfields were equipped with these twin Derwent devices, mounted on castoring wheels and fitted to the front of a Bowser. They had a small cabin mounted between the engines with an intercom to the bowser driver. All technical SNCO’s were on a roster to operate them. It was good fun lifting large sheets of ice and blowing them to b******. I remember describing one of my colleagues,”as a small WAAF annoying two large jet engines”. The Russians used the front fuselage and engine of redundant MiG 15’s mounted on a truck for the same purpose.

John

Yuppy do-dah. Coconuts R us.

John

An easy one from my own files.

John

Potez 621.

John

By simple observation, the hangar in Tim’s photo has high windows, not unlike a C type. If one looks at the other shot of the Orion it is in front of the small hangar with the odd sun shade which appears in the right of centre in the Photo number 4. It dosen’t appear to have windows. That Orion travelled through the middle east and then down to Rhodesia where it crashed. So it could be the large “shed” in the Shaibah pic or “on route”. Harking back to the last Hendon pic you can just make out the yellow (ortho film) Tutor u/c under the belly which appears in other shots, plus the mix of what I suggest are 11 FTS Audaxes (with tailwheels and a lone Fury with it’s skid on a dolly. Same day different timing.

John

It’s an Aerocentre NC something or other.

John, thinking why am I doing this.

Ref Post 6. It is true that the Bristol Biplane was an unashamed “borrowing” of the Farman design after the Zodiac debacle.

John