As a boy at Stansted (born 1948) and spending every spare moment at the airport, I remember so many Yorks, from Skyways, Lancashire Aircraft Corp, Scottish Aviation etc…
Yes Old Shuck the Constellations were there too, oh happy days !!!
I remember the local talk of freighting monkeys in crates, something to do with their rhesus blood group ????? and talk of how their urine was rotting the aircraft structure ????
Can remember standing beside a Skyways York one day whilst they struggled to load some Lotus racing cars through the cargo door .. with great difficulty, huge difference in technology there that day ????
And of course there was a large gathering of Tudors, in many forms, courtesy of Freddie Laker and Aviation Traders.
There is a lot of very good detailed work on York and other aircraft in this supurb book, published last year, hopefully a link to the website below !
http://www.flywiththestars.co.uk/index.htm
Keith.
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