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More on Scrapyards

Posted by Paul McMillan on Wed Jun 12, 2002 05:47:04 AM

If only these were saved............


Re: Scrapyards



Two minor scrapyards, but with rather interesting occupants at the time:

Unknown ownership, at Forres, Morayshire being cleared for a (Sainsbury's supermarket) in Apr 1977 included Washington engine nacelles, Neptune rear turrets, a Halifax cockpit (serial on control yoke, but not in my accessible records at present) and 2 Jumo 004 engines which had gone in under power. I know of no such crashes in UK during the war. Perhaps they were from Arado 234 w/nr 140466 (Air Min 24) which crashed oin its ferry flight to Farnborough on 27 Aug 45?

Freeth's (?) on the west side of the A419 north of Swindon, which had major TSR2 fuselage sections when visited in May 1982. These apparently came from "a Government furniture depot" at nearby Seven Bridges, to which they had been sent instead of being scrapped or sent to Shoeburyness or similar.

I have slides of some of the inmates, but cannot locate my written notes currently - there were no "whole" aircraft at either site.

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