That is a cracker of a photo, Paddy, many thanks. I’ve only ever seen a very small photo of that, so to her see full size is great – cheers for that.

If anyone’s got anymore, that’s the kind of thing I’m after.

Hello again NS, unfortunately I was not able to establish any firm contacts for you yesterday. I did chat with a gentleman from the north west who was working on a Canberra rebuild project, which I believe may be for the BAe Heritage Team. He was a last minute addition to the hangar displays at Newark, but was not familiar with the Ethiopian Canberras; he may be returning for Cockpit-Fest next month and I’ll try to have more of a chat.

Later next week I’ll try and have a check in the Peter Green research files that are now housed in the NAM Archive. I did check them a while back for another Canberra enquiry but I don’t recall anything specific to those airframes; sadly his photographic collection was disposed of elsewhere!

Regards,
TO23

Hi TO23,

Thanks for looking into it regardless. I’ve been in touch with the BAe Heritage team again on this topic and they say they have a possible contact. But if you do hear anything in the meantime or come across anything in the NAM archive, that’s great. As I said, this is a rather obscure topic where it seems little material exists or was purposely removed or limited at the time for political reasons. But you never know what might turn up!

Hi Ned,
That sounds like the material I’m after, although some of those customers (namely Argentina, Chile and Ethiopia) came from the 1967-1982 period. And several other marks were involved aside from the B.6. The Ethiopian deal, which is the one I’m focusing on more at the moment, was confirmed in 1967 and the four Canberras were delivered in late 1968. Would your father still been at BAC then, and in what capacity did he work for them?

They are great- they sent me some good stuff over the years on this topic. I’ll see if they can help with the ex-workers angle too.

Cheers in advance, you never know!