Although not Glasgow, this shows what I was meaning, and confirms that it was 1943.

I see what you mean Mark12, perhaps, it’s not an aircraft at all, it may well be an instructional airframe with bits and pieces tacked on. After all, the mechanics could be ground training instructors.

This does throw up an interesting possibility. Would I be right in thinking that the Hurricane seems to be sitting in a static setting, with a grassed area around it. This close up seems to show a grass border running alongside the tail, as though the aircraft has been intentionally sitting there for quite some time.

I notice the seller has closed bidding on the Jenny. This was closed early “due to an error in the description.”

Mosquito by Bill Sweetman (illustrations by Rikyu Watanabe), published by Jane’s in 1981 has one Tse-Tse photo, credited to British Aerospace via Philip Birtles. It’s just an anonymous works shot of the nose showing the 57mm muzzle, but it might be of interest.

Hi RadarAchive,

Nope, the model is correct (I should know, ‘cos I sent John a whole pile of Mk XVIII pics). Some Mk XVIII’s had only 2x .303’s, instead of the usual 4.

Cheers,
Neilly

Neilly,

A belated thanks for this. I must confess I didn’t know that, but I’m always happy to be set straight by an expert!

The suggestion put forward about how wonderful it would be to see the Beaufort, Beaufighter and Blenhiem n the air together (which wold be f’ing fantastic :diablo: ) got me thinking. Sadly, I’m no great illustrator, but I threw these three photos together to give a flavour of what it might look like. Just image these three as sitting together, just waiting to take off for their display … Are you drooling yet? I know I am. 😀

I doubt if anyone will agree with this, but my favourite has always been the Beaufighter. I think it has a rugged beauty all of its own.

But then again, my other favourite twin, the Mossie, does have the graceful lines …

Jonathan,

Thanks, it’s not useless at all, but very interesting. I don’t suppose you or yoru grandparents have any photos of the Rotor period station during the 1950s or, even better, of the wartime CHL which was very close by? I know it’s a bit of a long shot, but I’d be very interested in any such images.

Incidentally, I have a copy of the Occurrence Book from March 1953 to April 1954. There are too many pages to reproduce them here, but one incident caught my eye: on the night of 24/25 July 1953 22 feet of 3-core cable, weighing 22 cwt, went missing. The loss was reported by Mr Strong of Marconi, one of the contractors working on site. None of your grandparent’s neighbours happen to have a lot of cable lying around do they? 😉