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By: 28th December 2004 at 16:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Does the 1950's count?
Here is one that puzzled me for a long time.
International Alloys 1959
Any takers?
Mark
By: 28th December 2004 at 16:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Lockheed Neptune
compare with this one:
Martin
By: 28th December 2004 at 16:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-and here's a Steve Bond photo of Balliol T.21's at RNAS Brawdy
Martin
By: 28th December 2004 at 17:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I do hope that this thread stays active as the pics are very interesting.....
By: 28th December 2004 at 17:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Scrapyard photo's? No Problem
:(
By: 28th December 2004 at 18:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Does the 1950's count?
Mark,
Yes, they do. Keep them coming.
Cheers
Cees
By: 28th December 2004 at 19:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Perhaps not quite what you wanted, Cees, but this is the results of "a good day down the scrapyard". Circa 1980.... :D
By: 28th December 2004 at 19:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-"Get a grip, will yer?" :)
By: 28th December 2004 at 22:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Lockheed NeptuneMartin
Martin,
Yes a Lockheed Neptune.
Here are a few more from International Alloys, with apologies if I have already posted any of them previously.
Mark
By: 28th December 2004 at 23:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Enough to break your heart isn't it :(
Dan
By: 28th December 2004 at 23:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Got any of the Lightnings on the yard nr Bedhampton nr Portsmouth? Wonder what became of those?
By: 29th December 2004 at 00:33 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Is that second to last pic a DH Hornet ?
TNZ
By: 29th December 2004 at 00:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-No, surely a Brigand?
And two shots above it is a Hawker something (Sea Fury?) adjacent to what looks like a Lancaster/Lincoln rear end. The lighter shade of paint on the rear most part is unusual though?
By: 29th December 2004 at 01:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-23 Jan 1945 Fw190 2 3 F/O B.M. Vassiliades (EJ660) 10 m W Gütersloh
Look at the last photo, see EJ660?
The info pasted above taken from this site:-
By: 29th December 2004 at 01:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A bit more about the bloke who flew EJ660...
http://www.frenkenstein.com/ww2/greece/Vass/Vass.htm
Where've I seen a reference to him in a seperate thread only today?
By: 29th December 2004 at 02:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Now I really want to cry. Talk about a piece of history
Dan
By: 29th December 2004 at 08:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The second photo from the top posted by Mark 12 shows the rear fuselage of a Wellington. The silver finish could point into the direction of a T Mk 10.
682al, nice pics about the spade grips, Hurricane/Typhoon/Tempest?
Keep them coming as anything is interesting. Probably hordes of people are now feverishly trying to contact you to persuade you to sell them. :p
Any pics about turrets in scrapyards?
Cheers
Cees
By: 29th December 2004 at 11:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The spade grips mostly have the Dunlop pneumatic gun firing buttons and are Typhoon and/or Tempest. You will also see quite a few of the later Spitfire type with the rectangular gun firing control for the Hispano/Browning equipped versions. We found the remains of a Lysander column with one of those attached, too.
I don't get pestered too often these days, I think everyone knows how cantankerous I can be when it comes to parting with stuff. "...find me one I haven't got and I'll think about it!" ;)
Here's my first Frazer Nash FN150 turret (Lancaster mid-upper). This photo was taken after it had been loaned to the Air Gunners Association for a few years. They had done some basic cleaning and installed some (mostly) fake bits to make it look more complete. These are all stripped out and are lying in front of it, so what you see is pretty much the turret that I bought from a Staffordshire scrapyard in 1971 for £5. I don't recall there being any others in the yard but it's a long time ago. There were at least two Lanc undercarriage legs lying next to the turret but they were too heavy to shift!
You're right about the Wellington fuselage and there's also a Lancaster or Lincoln nose lying next to the Tempest, EJ660 - you can see the Wireless Op's position quite clearly.
By: 29th December 2004 at 12:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-International Alloys circa 1959
You would not believe how difficult it was for a teenager to identity the Neptune from available references at the time. :(
I see a couple of Tempest V's there including EJ660 and these would be the remnants of the Target Towing converted aircraft. I see codes 87? and 30.
The Wellington 6754M is formerly NC837.
I suspect a Lincoln rear end by virtue of the multitude of front ends on site.
..and the Brigand. What can you say?
A few more from the same sortie and that is probably the lot.
Mark
By: 29th December 2004 at 12:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-A stack of Sunderland flight deck areas in the last photo, Mark?
They've got those Rebecca aerials that Peter wants, but someone has beaten him to it on the Lincoln nose!
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By: HP57 - 28th December 2004 at 16:21
Hi all,
I have spent some time today in the archive of this forum and enjoyed the many threads about scrapyards in the sixties, seventies and eighties. And the photo's posted (by Mark 12 and 682al, to name but a view) showing Spitfire, Typhoon and Lancaster remains are extremely interesting. Also the photo's posted by Cestrian were very intriguing.
Any more where that came from?
Cheers
Cees