The only contender for AA’s aeroplane I can come up with would be a Gatard Stratoplan Poussin.

John

🙂 As someone who wouldn’t dream of using ebay thats no help.

The problem with modern light aviation is that it’s so prolific but very little appears in publication. Indeed I find that for French Vintage aircraft in particular.

John

When Westland decided to close the Hayes site two of the Fairey Directors, in a miff, put much of the archives in the incinerator. Ian Huntley had the foresite to fill his car boot a number of times with archives before they disappeared. Ian still has that in his collection. Westland only took what they thought would be useful and nothing that was duplicated at either site. The remains of anything from Hayes did go to the RAF Museum and are stored in boxes. The contents have never been sorted into any sort of category and much of it is day-to-day notes/letters etc although there is some interesting stuff. There is an archive of drawings – all unsorted! According to the ‘Museum it would take years to sort. The RAF Museum library has a small quantity of old files, mostly I think on transparent card. The archives from Stockport/Heaton Chapel/Ringway sites were for the most part after the war put in one of their old factory air raid shelters and with the development of the area for housing were bulldozed into the foundations of new estates. How do I know? I used to visit all those sites before their demise and talked to many people on the workforce – including Ian Huntley who became a friend.
Billbattle

Hoped that you would pop up Bill.

Regards

John

I know this isn’t a Super Scarab but it may help.

John

TO23, as you sumise it’s against the wall behind the T.11. I took it when I was doing the drawings for the Vampires.

John

The hubs are too weak to be from a car. I think that they are the type fitted to motorcycle sidecars. They’re not Austin 7 as they have no enlarged rear flange to fit over the brake drum.

John

Yes the a/c letter is T and the odd thing about 214 a/c is that they carried the a/c letter in front of the roundel and the Sqn codes aft. I have had a glass on the original picture and I think that the letter visible between the u/c components is T and that the B is just disernable between the roundel and the door, with the U painted mostly on the door. This is illustrated quite well in the picture of a 214 a/c (Q.BU) carried on page 17 of the Warpaint publication.

John

I suggest that as this one confused the “little grey cells” that you take control and post another.

John