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Re: More on Scrapyards 2 Serials Overload
Posted by PeterA on Fri Jun 14, 2002 02:44:57 PM
In reply top Re: More on Scrapyards 2 Serials Overload posted by Paul McMillan on Fri Jun 14, 2002 07:13:06 AM
Not an overload for me Paul - more a trip down memeory lane. I have just dug out my very old negatives for International Alloys circa 1958 and note the many serials that correspond. As a teenager in the 1950's at that time, I was more intersted in 'spotting' WWII types rather than noting down serials. Indeed it was on a sortie by bike from Harrow to Croyden to see Hughie Green's Catalina that I was given the 'Gen' and the sketch map, from Air -Britain guys, that on the way I could see three or so Typhoon cockpit sections over the fence at the back of some yard close by. There was no mention of Spitfires there and certainly nothing visible from my vantage point!! At least four of the serials quoted on the listing are from the School of Land Air Warfare at Old Sarum where they had been used for firing trials. PK401 in theory should have been in Southern Rhodesia. All very interesting. I wonder if George Trussell took any photographs? A subject for more research I think.
: Posted by George Trussell
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: Eyres - my original log books are missing so cannot confir
: m that all pieces were there, certainly only the tail sec
: tions of the Typhoons
: were there at that time.
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: 19/01/58 - Lancasters - 6386M, 644_M
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: 25/01/58 - Lancaster ? 6505M
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: 01/02/58 - Typhoons - R7722, R7755, R8019
: Spitfires - LA195, LA258, LA281, PK382, PK401, PK404,
: PK497
: Meteors - EE454, VZ606, VZ647, WE967, WH409, WH447, WK8
: 13, WL260,
: WS103
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: 06/04/58 - Lancaster ? RE208
: Lincolns - RA663, RA690, RE298 :
: Meteors - VT182, WD788, WS117
: Vampires - WM674, WM704, WP233, WP236, WP247, WP251
: Hunter - WW659
: Javelin - XA813
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: 15/04/58 - Attacker - WA520
: Meteors - EE452, VZ436, VZ504, VZ584, VZ598, WD682, WH185
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: WK881, WL401, WL404, WL484, WS115
: Lincolns - SX940, SX942, WD124
: Vampires - VV550, VZ210, VZ286, WM676, WM703, WM718, WM73
: 3, WZ426,
: WZ460, WZ506, XE993
: Venom - VV613
: Sabres - XB582, XB763, XB923, XD774
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: 02/05/58 - Lincolns - RE407, RF366
: Mosquito - TA719
: Meteors - VW780, VZ576, VZ583, WH548, WL403
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: International Alloys, Aylesbury,
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: 02/15/58 - Chipmunks - WP866, WZ871
: Harvard - KF832
: Prentice - 7178M, 7180M, 7183M
: Provost - WV629
: Sunderlands - ML763, NJ226, NJ275, PP154, RN188, RN266,
: RN301,
: RN303, SZ517, SZ566, SZ571, SZ575, VB881, VB888, VB889
: Auster AOP6 - WE561
: Lancaster - TW896
: York - MW165
: Lincolns - RE256, RE322, RE346, RE405, RF336, RF356, RF45
: 4, SX931,
: SX977, WD127
: Tempests - EJ660, NV671, SN164, SN271, SN340
: Hunters ? WT556, WT561
: Balliol - WN517
: Brigands ? RH762, RH794
: Mosquito - PF633
: Vampires - 7053M, 7059M, VV464
: Meteors - VS972, VT242, VT271, VW276, VW300, VZ392, WL467
: , 6280M,
: VZ466, WA767, WH257, WH272, WH277, WK733, WK753, WK882, WK
: 893, WK923,
: WK972, WL112, VW360
: Varsity - WJ888
: Wellingtons - LR183, NA771, 6754M
: Wyvern - VZ786
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: 02/28/60 - Hunter - XG162 : Canberra - WE143 : Vampires ?
: VT804,
: WP248
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: 08/06/61 - Swift ? WK271
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